Report: Hariri to return in 2025 to prepare for elections
Ex-PM and al-Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri will return to Lebanon in the spring of 2025 to prepare for the 2026 parliamentary elections, Mustaqbal sources said.
“He will engage in the battle, carrying a host of projects that need a significant parliamentary bloc,” ad-Diyar newspaper quoted the sources as saying.
He is seeking to “reinvigorate the Sunni community and return it to the decision-making sphere,” the sources added.
Hariri had visited Lebanon earlier this month to mark the 19th anniversary of the assassination of his father ex-PM Rafik Hariri and hold meetings with a number of political leaders and members of his al-Mustaqbal Movement.
Hariri served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 to 2020.
Hariri's surprise announcement of an intent to resign, broadcast on November 4, 2017 on Saudi state TV, has widely been seen as part of the Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflict in Lebanon, and triggered a dispute between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
The resignation was later suspended, following then-President Michel Aoun's request to "put it on hold ahead of further consultations."
On 29 October 2019, amid the 2019–20 Lebanese protests, he announced his resignation, and that of his cabinet. He was designated as prime minister on October 22, 2020 but failed to form a government, resigning on July 15, 2021.
On January 24, 2022 he announced that he was suspending his involvement in political activities and did not run in the parliamentary elections on May 15, 2022.
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