March 8: No Cabinet is Looming in Horizon
The March 8 forces have expressed pessimism at solving the cabinet deadlock soon, saying contacts between Premier-designate Najib Miqati and the different parties of the March 8 forces have been in a standstill since last Wednesday.
The circles of the new parliamentary majority told An Nahar daily published Sunday that although Miqati stayed in touch with Hizbullah and Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal movement, the different sides are not expected to meet with the premier-designate next week.
Furthermore, there was still no improvement in the relations between Miqati and the Free Patriotic Movement whose leader Michel Aoun has launched verbal attacks against the prime-minister designate and President Michel Suleiman accusing them of delaying the formation of the cabinet.
“Things have gone back to square one less than two weeks after reaching agreement on naming retired Internal Security Forces Maj. Gen. Marwan Charbel to the interior ministry post,” the new parliamentary sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat.
They hinted that the agreement was now in tatters after Aoun began making demands for more shares in the new cabinet and Miqati rejected conditions imposed on him.
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