After more than a month of political negotiations, the Lebanese government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab was finally announced, Tuesday evening January 21. It is made up of twenty ministers.
The list of members of the government was read by a senior official at the presidential palace in Beirut after President Michel Aoun signed the document, which was the subject of more than a month of heated negotiations.
Hassan Diab, engineering professor and former education minister, has promised to respond to protesters' demands.
The country has not had a full-time government since Saad Hariri resigned last October, under pressure from unprecedented protests against elite corruption and their failure to lift Lebanon from an unprecedented financial and economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Hassan Diab had been appointed before Christmas. But the announcement of the composition of its government was delayed, as Hezbollah and its political allies failed to agree on the allocation of ministries.
The protest did not weaken, and nearly 400 people were injured in clashes between demonstrators and security forces that engulfed central Beirut on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
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The fall of the Lebanese pound and the supervision of bank withdrawals, combined with high inflation and rising unemployment, weigh on the daily life of the Lebanese.
With Reuters
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