Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab is due to announce the resignation of his cabinet on Monday evening, after the successive resignations of members of his team under the blow of the deadly explosion of the port of Beirut, told AFP a minister who requested the 'anonymity.
Hassan Diab, head of government for nearly seven months, is due to address the Lebanese at 7:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. in France). Four members of his team have already resigned since Sunday, following the terrible explosion of August 4 due to a huge deposit of ammonium nitrate, which killed at least 160 people and revived popular protest. During a cabinet meeting, "most ministers were in favor of resigning," said Vartiné Ohanian, Minister of Youth and Sports.
Early elections must take place
Since Sunday and in the face of protests from an exhausted population, four ministers have already submitted their resignation: that of Finance Ghazi Wazni, that of Justice Marie-Claude Najm, that of Information Manal Abdel Samad and that of Environment Damianos Kattar. Hassan Diab's cabinet was formed in January after Saad Hariri's resignation under pressure from an unprecedented popular protest movement.
On Saturday, Hassan Diab had indicated that he was ready to remain in office for two months, until the organization of early elections in a country dominated by the armed movement of Hezbollah, an ally of Iran and the regime. of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.