FPM Lawmaker Says No New Government in Near Future

MP Mario Aoun of the Free Patriotic Movement announced Wednesday that “there will be no government in the near future.”

“The opposition camp is trying to waste time and it only wants this presidential tenure to come to an end, but what’s happening is a crime against Lebanon and its people,” Aoun said in an interview with Radio Voice of All Lebanon.

“Only some ministers are acting in caretaker capacity,” he added.

“PM-designate Najib Miqati is behaving in a manner similar to that of ex-PM Saad Hariri albeit in a diplomatic way. He is deliberately promoting a positive atmosphere in his statements as if things have been finalized, whereas there is no will to form a cabinet,” Aoun charged.

Accusing Miqati of seeking to “waste time” in order to form an “elections government,” the lawmaker said “the other camp” is trying to evade the “forensic audit.”