Berri Warns Security Situation 'Dangerous': My Initiatives on Cabinet Formation were Spurned
Speaker Nabih Berri reiterated on Wednesday that he has nothing new to add over the cabinet impasse, pointing out that the security situation has reached a “critical stage.”
“I have suggested all my proposals and initiatives but they rejected them, I am waiting for the others now to present me with what they have,” Berri said in comment published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is seeking the formation of a 24-member cabinet in which the March 8, March 14 and centrists camps would each get eight ministers.
He is also rejecting granting veto power to any power, which the March 8 camp has been demanding.
The March 14 coalition is meanwhile calling for keeping Hizbullah out of the cabinet over its role in Syria's war.
Concerning the security situation in Lebanon, Berri urged officials to pay attention to it as it reached a delicate stage.
Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Rowais was targeted with a car bomb that killed 27 people and wounded more than 336 other.
The attack, Lebanon's bloodiest since its 1975-1990 civil war, came just over a month on from another car bomb attack in the same area that wounded around 50 people.
Thursday's bombing was claimed by an unknown cell that said it was revenge for Hezbollah's engagement in Syria's war alongside Assad's troops.
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah accused radical Sunni Islamists of staging the attack.
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