Report: Bassil gives up 30-seat govt., wants to name 2 new ministers

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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has “given up his demand” to enlarge the government from 24 to 30 seats in return for him naming the new economy and displaced ministers who will replace incumbent ministers Amin Salam and Issam Sharafeddine, a media report said.

“Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati does not mind this matter,” al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

“He raised this issue with President Michel Aoun from the very beginning and he gave up changing the energy minister out of his desire to facilitate the government’s formation, but he put a condition on the president to pick a replacement for the economy minister who would be accepted by Akkar’s MPs, seeing as this ministerial portfolio is part of the Sunni share in the current government,” sources close to Mikati told the daily.

Mikati also asked Aoun to “choose a candidate for the Ministry of the Displaced who would not be in rivalry with Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, seeing as this ministry is part of the Druze community’s share in the current government,” the sources added.

“Should Aoun pick these candidates with these characteristics, there will be no obstacle in the way of the government’s formation at any given moment,” informed sources told al-Joumhouria.

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Default-user-icon Aboude (Guest) 29 August 2022, 22:44

How do these clowns still have supporters