BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese caretaker Hassan Diab threatened Saturday to suspend his duties to pressure politicians to form a new government.
“If secession helps create a cabinet I am ready to go to it, although it will go against my condemnation because it upsets the whole state and is detrimental to Lebanon,” he said. Diab in speech.
Diab’s cabinet retired in late August. 4 Beirut port exploded which destroyed large areas of the capital.
Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri was named in October but has so far failed to form a new cabinet due to political closures between him and President Michel Aoun.
Reporting by Maha El Dahan and Laila Bassam; Editing with heinrich mark