Report: Hariri in Beirut next Week to Follow up on Franjieh Nomination
Head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri is expected to make a return to Lebanon to follow up on the latest developments linked to the presidential elections, revealed the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
It said that he is likely to return next week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday, to follow up on the efforts to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh as president.
The lawmaker's nomination will be officially announced on Tuesday or Wednesday, added the daily.
Hariri is currently in Riyadh where he arrived from Paris.
He is set to meet with a number of Lebanese officials to address the presidential elections, including Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi.
Franjieh had received on Friday a telephone call from French President Francois Hollande to discuss the presidential elections.
The call came a day after Hariri had met the French leader in Paris.
The Marada Movement chief has emerged as a potential presidential candidate as part of a greater settlement aimed at ending the political deadlock in Lebanon.
There are however voices of dissent among the Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces, and Change and Reform bloc over the nomination of Franjieh.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise candidate have thwarted the polls.
Hariri had last paid a visit to Beirut in February to mark the tenth anniversary of his father's assassination.
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