With the support of Hezbollah .. Assigning Hassan Diab to form the Lebanese government

Lebanese President Michel Aoun has assigned former Minister of Education Hassan Diab to form the next government, after he won 69 votes in binding parliamentary consultations conducted by the President today, Thursday.

Diab said - in a televised speech on Thursday evening after he was assigned to form a government - that he calls on the Lebanese people in all arenas and regions to be partners in launching the "rescue workshop" and pledged to work hard to form the government as soon as possible in consultation with political forces and the popular movement.

Describing himself as independent, he said that would allow all parties to be represented in the government. He believed that the country's "uprising" re-corrected political life and "feel like it represents me."

Diab received the assignment book at the Baabda presidential palace, where he met President Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

This came after Aoun ended the binding parliamentary consultations that took place throughout the day to nominate a prime minister, in which Diab won 69 votes out of a total of 128 parliamentarians.

Who chose Diab?
Al-Jazeera correspondent stated that Diab obtained the votes of the Hezbollah bloc, the Development and Liberation bloc and other deputies, while more than forty deputies declined to nominate a candidate to form the government, most notably the Future Movement bloc led by Saad Hariri, the outgoing Prime Minister. Only 14 deputies gave their votes to the former ambassador, Nawaf Salam.

Attention is turning to the streets to explore the views of the popular movement in assigning Diab, as the demonstrators insist for weeks on the formation of a rescue government from specialists away from partisan forces.

Al-Hariri submitted his government’s resignation on October 29, under the pressure of the popular movement that has continued since October 17, which calls for the departure of the ruling elite, the eradication of corruption and the end of the sectarian political system. Lebanon faces the worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.