Report: Paris keen on its initiative amid changes in KSA's Lebanon team

France is still clinging to its presidential initiative for Lebanon and will work on “re-floating it based on the results of the latest electoral session,” high-ranking sources said.

The results “showed that (Suleiman) Franjieh is immunized by a firm camp that is dealing seriously with his nomination in the face of an opposition camp whose disunity and non-intersection over a single objective have shown,” the sources told al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Friday.

The Saudi team tasked with following up on Lebanon’s presidential file has meanwhile witnessed “changes,” the daily quoted reports as saying.

“The Royal Palace adviser in charge of the Lebanese presidential file, Nizar al-Aloula, whose negative stance on the French initiative is known, has been removed” from the team, the reports said.

“Al-Aloula has been tasked with the Sudan file instead of Lebanon’s,” the reports quoted informed sources as saying.