Report: Bou Habib promoting himself as presidential candidate
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib promoted himself as a potential presidential candidate during his latest visit to Washington, telling several officials whom he met that there is a possibility to secure domestic consensus over his name should his candidacy receive U.S. support, a media report said on Thursday.
Bou Habib argued that “he was a former ambassador to the United States and enjoys Western and Arab relations that allow for boosting his presidential chances,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported.
“While it is still unknown whether Bou Habib’s move was a personal initiative from him to explore the U.S. stance or at the request of Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil,” sources close to the FPM told the daily that “so far, the FPM does not have any presidential candidate.”
The sources added that they know nothing about any “serious proposal” related to Bou Habib’s nomination.
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