Report: Franjieh told Durel that PM should be named by parliament

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh is at the top of the presidential candidates list of French President Emmanuel Macron, a political source said.

As for Franjieh’s recent meeting with French presidential advisor Patrick Durel, the Marada leader told the latter that he prefers to leave the naming of the premier to the binding parliamentary consultations that the president would conduct upon his election, the source told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Tuesday.

France had recently proposed a presidential deal involving the election of Franjieh as president and the appointment of Nawaf Salam as premier.