Report: Aoun, allies prefer Miqati for PM but won't allow him to form govt.
President Michel Aoun is committed to calling for binding parliamentary elections to name a new premier as soon as possible, in order to impose a PM “designation without (government) formation” equation, sources informed on Aoun’s choices said.
“This is the likely choice, seeing as it allows the President to evade responsibility for blocking government’s formation in front of the international community,” the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper in remarks published Monday.
“The Presidency and its allies prefer to keep PM Najib Miqati in the post… and the Free Patriotic Movement chief would then assume the mission of imposing crippling conditions on Miqati that would prevent the formation of his new government,” the daily added.
This camp would then “wait for domestic and foreign settlements that would put the governmental and presidential junctures in one basket, even if this requires plunging the country into a presidential vacuum that would give the Presidency’s powers to the caretaker cabinet,” Nidaa al-Watan said.
“The FPM and the Shiite Duo have a significant ministerial bloc in (the caretaker cabinet) as well as its main and sovereign portfolios, which will not be easy for them to maintain should a new government be formed in light of the change in the map of the parliamentary majority,” the newspaper added.
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