Will the news partly appease the anger of the street? Former Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi gave up on Saturday, November 16, to become the next Prime Minister of Lebanon, judging too difficult to form a "harmonious" government supported by all political forces.
In a statement, the businessman said he hoped that outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri would be re-appointed to the post of head of government.
Saad Hariri resigned on October 29, while Lebanon has been suffering for weeks in a protest movement in the street targeting a political class deemed corrupt and adept nepotism, against a backdrop of economic difficulties.
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"Things get more complicated"
According to political sources, a consensus on the appointment of Sunni Mohammad Safadi was found Thursday evening between Saad Hariri and officials of Shiite movements Amal and Hezbollah. The prime minister must be Sunni in Lebanon's confessional system of power-sharing.
But no political force had publicly supported this 75-year-old businessman and former Tripoli MP, Minister of Finance from 2011 to 2014. Similarly, no date had been set for the opening of consultations for designation.
Quoted by the newspaper Al Djoumhouria, the Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri had questioned in the day the agreement of appointment of Safadi. "Things are getting more complicated, we need a quick solution to get Lebanon out of the crisis," said the leader of the Amal movement.
With Reuters