Berri Expects Solution to Deadlock Soon, Allows Miqati to Choose his Bloc’s Ministers
Speaker Nabih Berri expressed optimism on Monday on the formation of the government, saying he will facilitate Premier-designate Najib Miqati’s mission by allowing him to choose the Development and Liberation bloc’s ministers.
“We have moved to the stage of resolving (the deadlock) and reaching the expected solution,” Berri told An Nahar daily.
“I have full confidence in the efforts carried out by PM-designate Miqati and I will give him the freedom in naming the ministers of the Development and Liberation bloc,” he said.
“I will provide him with two or three names for each portfolio and allow him to choose” the ministers, Berri told the newspaper.
The speaker also denied to As Safir daily that he had proposed to Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to get the foreign ministry portfolio instead of the controversial interior ministry.
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