Report: Mikati may present unacceptable line-up in coming days
The contacts over the cabinet formation have ground to a halt and the past days did not witness any consultations in this regard, informed sources have said.
Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, however, might in the coming days present a line-up which he knows in advance that it would be rejected by President Michel Aoun, the sources added, in remarks to al-Akhbar newspaper published Friday.
“Mikati, Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat do not want to give Aoun another accomplishment after the demarcation achievement at the end of his tenure,” the sources said.
Free Patriotic Movement sources meanwhile told al-Akhbar that they are betting on Mikati’s “fear of the possible repercussions that may result from the failure to form a government” and the resulting “political tensions that might spill into the streets.”
“The FPM is determined not to allow a resigned caretaker cabinet to inherit the powers of the president and it is willing to go far away in its escalation to prevent that, regardless of the results," the sources added.
14 October 2022, 16:44
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So the Prime Minister of the Republic of Lebanon can not select his own cabinet.
It's about time that the people and especially the politicians in the country realise that the Presidency should have no say whatsoever in this process.
It should be blatantly clear that there is a complete separation between the Presidency and the Parliament.
16 October 2022, 15:08
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All well and good, but in Israel the President does not interfere in the selection of a government, this in simply between the leaders of the parties.
