The March 14 alliance (Arabic: تحالف 14 آذار‎), named after the date of the Cedar Revolution, is a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon that call are united by their pro-sovreignty stance, led by MP Saad Hariri, younger son of Rafik Hariri, the assassinated former prime minister of Lebanon, as well as other figures such as Samir Geagea, president of the Lebanese Forces.

The Free Patriotic Movement of General Michel Aoun left the informal grouping before the 2005 general election, before March 14 was an established alliance, due to major disagreements. After the 2005 elections, The Free Patriotic Movement was alone in the opposition, but was joined one year later by the pro-Syrian government March 8 Alliance in November 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Mohamad Bahaa Chatah (Arabic: محمد شطح‎) is a Lebanese economist and diplomat. He served as senior adviser to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora from August 2005 to July 2008 and Saad Hariri from August 2009 to January 2011.

Chatah served as Ambassador of Lebanon to the U.S. from 1997 to 2000; his term ended with the resignation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He returned to the IMF in 2001 and stayed until June 2005. Chatah's resignation from the IMF in 2005 coincided with the assassination of Hariri on February 14, 2005; he returned to Lebanon as a senior adviser to the newly elected Prime Minister Fouad Siniora (a long-time Hariri confidante). With the July 2006 war, Chatah appeared on numerous Western news outlets as a public spokesman for the Lebanese government. When asked on the role of the Lebanese government in disarming local armed groups, Chatah said "we are doing it [through] dialogue and persuasion, and trying to reach a point where the state is the sole holder of weapons and the one with the only authority throughout our territory."