BEIRUT: Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri might attend an independence ceremony next weekend in the northern city of Tripoli, said former MP Mustapha Allouch, several media outlets reported Sunday.

“[Former] Prime Minister Saad Hariri will make a statement during an independence ceremony by the party organized in Tripoli on the [Nov.] 27,” Al-Mustaqbal newspaper quoted Allouch as saying.

Allouch added that Hariri could attend in person or via a television screen depending on events from “now until Nov. 27.”

Allouch, a Future Movement official, said the independence ceremony in Tripoli would aim at revitalizing the “Cedar Revolution” and criticizing the government “for placing itself under Syrian tutelage.”

The former MP said the choice of location was aimed at sending a message to Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who hails from Tripoli, that there will be “no refugee for him from here on in.”