Lebanese parties blame themselves for Mustapha Adib's failure
Lebanese Prime Minister Mustapha Adib on September 26, 2020 after announcing that he was giving up forming a government.
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Prime Minister Moustapha Adib, appointed at the end of August to try to form a government to rescue Lebanon, gave up his mission on Saturday, September 26.
The political parties reject the responsibility for this failure while unanimously reaffirming their attachment to the French initiative.
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With our correspondent in Beirut,
Paul Khalifeh
The Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berry, defended himself for having sabotaged France's efforts to pull Lebanon out of its crises.
He accused others, without naming them, of having torpedoed them, alluding to the former Sunni heads of government, who advised Mustapha Adib not to cede anything to the Shiites represented by the Amal movement he himself leads and Hezbollah.
"
No one is more attached than us to the French initiative,
" said the President of the Chamber.
Former Prime Minister
Saad Hariri
said those who hampered President Emmanuel Macron's initiative would "
bite their fingers in remorse
."
"
The Lebanese know those who blocked Mustapha Adib's mission and we don't need to name them because they have come out
," Saad Hariri said in a thinly veiled allusion to the Shiite parties, who demanded to keep the portfolio. finance and appoint their representative to the government.
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The outgoing Prime Minister, Hassane Diab
, estimated that "
the challenge of Moustapha Adib will increase the difficulties facing Lebanon and the Lebanese
".
He called on Emmanuel Macron to maintain his initiative to help Lebanon and called on the political forces to "
stop their tensions which threaten what remains of the country
".
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