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 assassination. 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.has once again rejected a government formation proposal, a new report claimed on Tuesday.
According to Saudi-based Asharq al-Awsat, Saad Hariri refused Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil’s proposition of forming a 32 minister government because the Lebanese Prime Minister believes Hezbollah is behind the move.
The report claimed that Hariri told Bassil that he was rejecting the proposition as "no matter what happens because Hezbollah is behind it."
Hezbollah "wants to impose it on the PM-designate, who does not want to introduce new norms in the formation of governments," the report claimed.
Hariri and his supporters have accused Hezbollah of stirring the issues plaguing the formation of the government.