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Less than a month after he was assigned to form a new government, diplomat Mustafa Adeeb apologized for the mission after pinning his hopes on its efforts to save the country from collapse through political changes and comprehensive reforms.
On August 31, Adeeb appointed the interim prime minister to replace Hassan Diab, whose government resigned following the bombing of the port of Beirut on August 4.
Since his appointment, he has sought to form a government of specialists capable of passing the necessary reforms.
But their efforts in particular collided with the insistence of the Shiite duo represented by Hezbollah, the country’s most prominent political and military force, and their ally, the Amal Movement, led by Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, to appoint their ministers and adhere to to the money bag.
Adeeb (48), a native of the northern city of Tripoli and close to former Prime Minister Najib Mikati, assumed the functions of Lebanon’s ambassador to Berlin from 2013 until the announcement of his appointment as president-designate in late August.
The man’s name appeared suddenly on the eve of the parliamentary consultations, succeeding Hassan Diab, after former heads of government, including Saad Hariri and Najib Mikati, adopted his candidacy and accepted him by the main forces, led by President Michel Aoun and his ally Hezbollah.
According to a biography posted on the website of the Lebanese embassy in Berlin, one author has a doctorate in law and political science. He began his career as a university professor at various universities in Lebanon, where he worked as a full-time professor at the Lebanese University since 2010, and in France. He participated in the preparation of academic research and provided consultations in various areas, including parliamentary oversight of the security sector, decentralization, and electoral laws.
Adeeb’s resignation is the third by a prime minister in less than a year, following the resignations of former Prime Minister Hassan Diab during the Beirut port explosion, and former President Saad Hariri, who resigned in October after the Popular protests spread throughout the Lebanese regions against the ruling political class.
A setback for Macron
Observers saw Adib’s apology for forming the government and the acceptance of this apology by President Michel Aoun as a further setback for President Emmanuel Macron in Lebanon and a death certificate for his initiative.
This initiative was launched by Macron after two visits to Lebanon following the catastrophe of the Beirut port explosion on the fourth of last month, with a threatening tone and giving instructions, and included the formation of a new government with a new political system, the reform of the central bank and the banking system, at the end of October.
In a press release after his meeting with Aoun, Adeeb justified his apology for his mission, saying: The consensus you accepted to form the government no longer exists.
For two weeks and more, the Shiite duo, the Amal Movement, led by Nabih Berri, and Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian regime and Iran, clung to the financial portfolio, despite the facilities provided by the former prime minister, chief from the March 14 bloc, Saad Hariri, who agreed that the bag should go to an independent Shiite figure. .
