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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Reports: Hariri to Quit as Discussions over Successor Begin
2021-07-10
[AnNahar] Prime Minister-designate 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 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 decided to step down and he is seeking an appropriate exit, media reports said on Thursday.

"There is lack of a real political will to form a government and there is an intention not to form the government," Lebanese journalist Johnny Mounayar said in an interview with al-Jadeed TV.

"PM-designate Hariri has decided to quit... and the decision is not to form a government with or without Saad Hariri," Mounayar added.

"From now until the date of the parliamentary elections, we will witness the most dangerous months of the Lebanese crisis," the journalist went on to say, warning that the country will witness further deterioration.

Center House sources meanwhile told MTV that "the issue of accepting an alternative PM-designate is being discussed by (Speaker Nabih) Berri, Hariri and the ex-PMs."

"We have not heard of the report about (Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
head Jebran) Bassil’s sadness over Hariri’s resignation and the presidential camp has done everything to prevent the government’s formation," the sources added.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Who's tha Saad clown then?

Sorry, couldn't resist.
Posted by: Too Old To Work   2021-07-10 07:48  

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