| Could there actually be a neutral personality in Lebanon? |
An Nahar daily said Friday that Miqati visited Baabda palace the day before to discuss with Suleiman the government deadlock that mainly rose because of the bickering between the president and Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
leader
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
over the portfolio.
Agreement has been reached for Suleiman to give up his demand for the portfolio, which was part of his share in caretaker Premier Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
's cabinet, the newspaper reported.
However,
The over-used
However...
it said it was not clear whether the ministry would be headed by a politician or a neutral personality.
But former minister Mario Aoun, who is an FPM official, told Voice of Leb radio station (93.3) on Friday that giving the interior ministry portfolio to any neutral personality won't solve the cabinet deadlock, hinting that an FPM politician should lead the ministry.
He said that if An Nahar's report about Suleiman's decision was true, only minor obstacles would remain.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily...
consultations among involved officials continued to end the government impasse. The aides of the speaker and the Hizbullah leader respectively MP Ali Hassan Khalil and Hussein Khalil visited Suleiman on Friday to discuss the cabinet crisis.