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On Thursday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun appointed the leader of the Future Movement, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, to form a new government after obtaining a majority of the votes from parliament in his parliamentary consultations, the presidency announced.
And the Lebanese presidency announced in a statement after the end of Aoun’s meetings with the parliamentary blocs: “After the President of the Republic conducted the binding parliamentary consultations, and after consulting with the Speaker of Parliament and informing him of their As a result, the president summoned Mr. Saad Eddin Hariri at 1:30 pm to assign him to form the government. “
After his meeting with the president in a brief speech to journalists, Hariri announced on Thursday that he will form a government made up of “non-partisan specialists, whose mission is to implement the economic, financial and administrative reforms contained in the French initiative document, in which the main blocks of Parliament pledged to support the government in its implementation. “
“I will focus on forming a quick government, because time is running out and the opportunity for our country is the only and the last,” he said.
Hariri got 65 votes, according to the presidency. While 53 deputies refused to name. The House of Representatives is made up of 128 members, but there are eight resigned deputies who did not participate in the consultations.
On the eve of his naming, Aoun took on Hariri, without naming him, the responsibility of fighting corruption and launching a reform workshop. He placed the deputies before their responsibilities, calling them to think about “the effects of the mandate on authorship and on reform projects and international rescue initiatives.”
Hariri’s nomination comes at a time when Lebanon is witnessing an accelerating economic collapse and the international community, led by France, hopes that officials will carry out the necessary reforms they have not achieved so far, which are a condition for the country obtain the necessary financial support.
Hariri, whose government resigned a year ago due to popular protests, awaits a difficult task due to political divisions and street resentment against the political class.
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