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2020-02-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Lebanon on the brink of forming government, top Berri aid says

[EN.ANNAHAR] Leb is on the brink of forming a new Cabinet after more than four months of political turmoil, caretaker Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil said Thursday.

"We are on the brink of forming a government made up of experts," Hassan Khalil said after he attended a meeting with Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
Nabih <q>Knobby</q> Berri

...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians...
and Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab.

Khalil confirmed that the government will include 18 "experts", yet stopped short of including the word independent, a core demand of protestors.

Diab, nominated almost a month ago, vowed that he would form a government of independent experts but has faced pushback from the Amal Movement, Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
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