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DPA
Beirut
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustafa Adib said on Thursday he plans more discussions as he struggles to form a new government to deal with the country’s economic woes.
“I agreed with the president to give more time to the ongoing consultations,” Adib told reporters after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
Adib admitted without elaborating that there are difficulties facing him in forming the government, but stressed that he is “counting on everyone’s cooperation.” The forming of the government has surpassed a 15-day deadline set during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron to Beirut on September 1.
Attempts by Adib to form the government have hit snags, due to the insistence by Lebanon’s Shiite House speaker Nabih Berri and his allies, including the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, that the portfolio of the Finance Ministry should be given to a Shiite.
Beirut
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustafa Adib said on Thursday he plans more discussions as he struggles to form a new government to deal with the country’s economic woes.
“I agreed with the president to give more time to the ongoing consultations,” Adib told reporters after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun.
Adib admitted without elaborating that there are difficulties facing him in forming the government, but stressed that he is “counting on everyone’s cooperation.” The forming of the government has surpassed a 15-day deadline set during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron to Beirut on September 1.
Attempts by Adib to form the government have hit snags, due to the insistence by Lebanon’s Shiite House speaker Nabih Berri and his allies, including the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, that the portfolio of the Finance Ministry should be given to a Shiite.
