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Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday instructed the head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, to form a new government after obtaining a majority of the votes of the representatives in his parliamentary consultations.
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. If he succeeds in his mission, it will be the fourth time he has led the Lebanese government since 2009.
Hariri announced that he would form a cabinet made up of “non-partisan specialists”, in line with the French initiative launched by President Emmanuel Macron to remove Lebanon from the cycle of economic collapse.
Hariri said after meeting with Aoun, who assigned him to form a government after obtaining a majority of the votes from parliament, that the government’s task will be to “implement the economic, financial and administrative reforms contained in the French initiative document, which compromised to the main blocks of Parliament to support the government in its implementation. “
He added: “I will focus on forming a government quickly because time is running out and the opportunity for our country is the only and last.”
And the Lebanese presidency announced in a statement after the end of Aoun’s meetings with the parliamentary blocs in a statement: “After His Excellency the President of the Republic conducted binding parliamentary consultations, and after he consulted with the Speaker of Parliament and informed him of its results, summoned His Excellency Mr. Saad Eddin Hariri at 1:30 pm “.
Hariri, the only candidate for the position, obtained 65 votes, according to the presidency. While 53 deputies refused to name.
The House of Representatives has 128 members, but there are eight resigned MPs who did not participate in the elections.
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 reflect on “the implications of the mandate on authorship, reform projects and international rescue initiatives.”
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Hariri is supported mainly by the majority of the deputies of his Sunni sect, the bloc of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and the Amal Movement, which is led by the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri.
On October 17, 2019, unprecedented popular demonstrations began that lasted for months. The protesters held the political forces that have ruled the country responsible for decades of economic and living deterioration due to widespread corruption, deals, neglect and exploitation of influence.
Following the overthrow of the Hariri government, Hassan Diab formed a government of specialists at the beginning of the year, which took power for seven months, but failed to implement any reforms due to the political forces that controlled it.
The parliamentary consultations began in Lebanon. Hariri to head the government and “composition difficulty”
Days after the first anniversary of the wave of protests known as the “October Revolution of 2019”, Lebanon is on its way to elect Saad Hariri as president-designate to form the new government, who resigned shortly after the start of the demonstrations, on 17 October, which held him responsible for financial and administrative corruption. What put the country in the biggest financial crisis in its history.
After the terrible explosion in the port on August 4, Diab resigned. French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beirut to help resolve the crisis.
He then returned again in early September and announced an initiative that he said all political forces had agreed to, and stipulated the formation of a government that would undertake reform according to a specific program, in exchange for financial assistance from the international community.
However, the political forces were unable to translate their promises, and Ambassador Mustafa Adeeb, who was appointed to form the government, was unable to fulfill his mission due to political divisions, especially the Shiite duo (Hezbollah and Amal Movement) that held the portfolio of the Ministry of Finance and appointed the Shiite ministers in the government.
Then, on September 27, Macron gave the political forces a new period of “four to six weeks” to form a government, accusing the political class of “collective treason.”
This period witnessed a breakdown in negotiations and meetings between political parties, and ambiguity prevailed for a long time, especially since there was no form of government, which is the rule created by the Lebanese president “composition before assignment”, which aims to agree on ministerial portfolios prior to the announcement of the designated president.
Lebanon is suffering the biggest financial crisis in its history, as the national process lost more than 80 percent of its value, causing high rates of poverty and unemployment and making life difficult.
