Report: Salam wants to name independent finance minister
Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam on Tuesday briefed President Joseph Aoun on the developments of the cabinet formation process without submitting a draft line-up, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Aoun and Salam discussed the “obstacles that are impeding formation, which are related to distributing three key portfolios -- finance, health and public works -- and to a hurdle invented by the (Shiite) Duo, which is its attempt to place conditions on the management of cabinet sessions and the decision-taking mechanism, in a bid to establish new norms,” the daily said.
“There is insistence from Salam that should the finance portfolio go to Shiites, it should be allotted to an independent figure not related to Amal or Hezbollah, who would be named by Salam in consensus with Aoun, something that is being rejected by the Hezbollah-Amal duo,” Nidaa al-Watan added.
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PM Designate Salam please listen to reason! Hizbollah criminal organization has the same support Assad had with arms and may have committed greater crimes than Assad. It occupied the country, controlled state institutions, transformed our cities into Iranian rocket bases, destroyed our economy and bankrupted a whole nation. Disarm Hizb now to liberate the Shia. They will dance in the streets like Syrians did after Assad fall. As to Berri, he is the opposite of Imam Saddr in every respect, a curse on Shia. Berri is the dean of political mafia and poison to any government. Any minister portfolio provided to this poisonous duo will slowly kill the government and international trust. The Shia community has abundant qualified honest individuals for any government position. Independent Shia are the only ones excluded from political life and it is up to you to give them justice. The World is behind you while Iran and its mercenaries are sinking. Choose wisely!
