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Saturday’s party’s proposal revolves around assigning key ministries to smaller sects in the country where Muslims and Christians share power. Officials from the Shiite factions have yet to issue a response insisting that they choose who holds many posts.
Lebanon’s efforts to form a new government quickly failed due to disagreement over how to elect ministers in a country where political allegiances are determined on sectarian grounds.
On September 15, the deadline agreed with France to form a new government expired. Paris would lead efforts to save Lebanon from economic collapse, expressing anger and advising Beirut to act “without delay.”
Representative Gebran Bassil suggested “experimenting with the distribution of the ministries known as sovereignty over the smaller sects, specifically the Druze, Alawites, Armenians and Christian minorities.”
The Prime Minister-designate, Mustafa Adib, wants, under the sectarian quota system in force in Lebanon, a comprehensive change in the leadership of the ministries that have been monopolizing the sects themselves for years.
A group of former prime ministers urged Adeeb to press for a government to be formed “as soon as possible”, but the Amal Movement and Hezbollah want to elect the personalities who will fill various positions, including the finance minister.
The finance minister will play a vital role while Lebanon is in debt and paralyzing its banks, and while the country seeks to resume stalled talks with the International Monetary Fund, which represents the first step according to a roadmap drawn up by France.
