Report: Mikati may present unacceptable line-up in coming days
The contacts over the cabinet formation have ground to a halt and the past days did not witness any consultations in this regard, informed sources have said.
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, however, might in the coming days present a line-up which he knows in advance that it would be rejected by President Michel Aoun, the sources added, in remarks to al-Akhbar newspaper published Friday.
“Mikati, Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat do not want to give Aoun another accomplishment after the demarcation achievement at the end of his tenure,” the sources said.
Free Patriotic Movement sources meanwhile told al-Akhbar that they are betting on Mikati’s “fear of the possible repercussions that may result from the failure to form a government” and the resulting “political tensions that might spill into the streets.”
“The FPM is determined not to allow a resigned caretaker cabinet to inherit the powers of the president and it is willing to go far away in its escalation to prevent that, regardless of the results," the sources added.
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