The Lebanese Parliament announced the schedule of consultations for the formation of the new government, which will be conducted tomorrow by Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, with members of Parliament from parliamentary blocs and independent representatives.
The Prime Minister-designate, according to these consultations, polls the opinions of the deputies, and determines their demands regarding the process of forming the new government, the mechanisms of ministerial representation within it and its agenda, and the government priorities that should be followed.
Parliamentary consultations - non-binding - will start tomorrow at noon, when the Prime Minister-designate seeks the opinion of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, followed by the former Prime Minister, MP Najib Mikati, to be followed by the former Prime Minister, Representative Tammam Salam, then Deputy Speaker of Parliament Elie Ferzli. That Hariri also listen to the opinions of parliamentary blocs and independent representatives.
hard mission
The leader of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, was assigned to lead and form the new government of Lebanon, in light of the results of the binding parliamentary consultations that took place earlier today, which led to his selection by 65 members of Parliament.
If Hariri, whose government resigned about a year ago due to popular protests, succeeds in the task of forming the next government, it will be the fourth time he has headed the cabinet since 2009.
Hariri's nomination comes at a time when Lebanon is witnessing an economic collapse, and the international community, especially France, is waiting for officials to undertake necessary reforms that they have failed to achieve so far, as a condition for providing necessary financial support to the country.
And the Lebanese presidency announced in a statement that President Michel Aoun - after binding parliamentary consultations - summoned "Hariri to assign him to form the government."
Hariri announced after his meeting with Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda near Beirut, and in a brief speech to journalists, that he would form a government composed of "non-partisan specialists whose mission is to implement the economic, financial and administrative reforms contained in the French initiative paper, which the main blocs in Parliament committed to support the government in its implementation." ".
Hariri announced his candidacy this month within the principles of the French initiative launched by President Emmanuel Macron to lift Lebanon out of its crisis.
Last August, France sought to push Lebanese politicians to address the unprecedented crisis, but they have not yet been able to take the first step, which is an agreement to quickly form a new government.