Oposisi telah melancarkan aksi duduk sejak 1 Desember di pusat kota Beirut guna menggulingkan pemerintah Perdana Menteri Fouad Seniora, yang memangku jabatan setelah pemilihan umum menyusul penarikan tentara Suriah pada 2005, dengan pemerintah persatuan nasional tempat koalisi yang memerintah memiliki hak veto minoritas.
The opposition have been staging sit-ins since December 1 in downtown Beirut to topple the Seniora government, which took office after the elections following the withdrawal of Syrian troops in 2005, with a national unity cabinet in which the governing coalition would have a minority veto.