Report: FPM again says won't let Mikati rule with caretaker govt.

The Free Patriotic Movement will not allow caretaker PM Najib Mikati to “rule” the country with his caretaker government in the event of a presidential vacuum, FPM sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Friday.

Sources informed on the meeting that Mikati held with President Michel Aoun on Thursday meanwhile told the daily that “it turned out that there is still a desire to form a government.”

“The discussion of the previous formats will be continued: keeping the government as it is with some adjustments or adding six state ministers,” the sources added.

“This will become clear at the end of next week or at the beginning of the week that follows, after Mikati returns from his tour” abroad, the sources said.