After a year of waiting, Lebanon now has a new government.
Long awaited in this country in crisis, Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Aoun signed the decree on the formation of the new government on Friday, September 10, in the presence of the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri.
Lebanon had been without a government for more than a year, with Prime Minister Hassan Diab resigning in August 2020, a week after the deadly double explosion in the port of Beirut.
In recent weeks, MM.
Mikati and Aoun met several times in a positive atmosphere, before obstacles prevented the difficult delivery of a government.
Since then, the unprecedented economic crisis that the country has been going through since the summer of 2019 has continued to worsen, the World Bank calling it one of the worst in the world since 1850. The international community is pushing for the country equips itself with a government capable of initiating crucial reforms.
With AFP
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