Aoun, Mikati continue their bickering over government

Ex-president Michel Aoun has described remarks voiced by caretaker PM Najib Mikati in parliament as “curtailed and lacking a lot of accuracy and correctness.”

“When he visited me to bid farewell six days before the term’s end, I told him that I was waiting for him to return to Baabda so that we issue the formation decree together, according to norms, but he went and did not come back,” Aoun said in a statement.

In an interview with Al-Arabi TV, Mikati stressed that the “current government is capable of practicing all its missions.”

“I will continue with my missions that are regulated by the Lebanese constitution,” Mikati added.

“I’m not a fan of provocations or quarrels with anyone,” the caretaker PM said.

“Michel Aoun’s envoy told me that the Free Patriotic Movement’s confidence in my personally is not guaranteed,” Mikati went on to say.