Lebanon’s Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri Resigns After Failing to Form Government

📆 7/15/2021 9:15 PM
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Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Saad Hariri on Thursday abandoned his nine-month effort to form a government, deepening a political crisis as the country struggles with a cratering economy and medical shortages amid a global pandemic

to give up trying to form up a government amid a deadlock among the country’s ruling elite.

“May God save the country,” Mr. Hariri said as he announced his resignation following a meeting with the president. Mr. Hariri said his resignation was the result of not being able to agree with Mr. Aoun, Lebanon’s octogenarian president who controls the largest Christian bloc in Parliament. The prime minister-designate and president had sparred over the allocation of portfolios in the cabinet, according to Mr. Hariri’s media adviser. The president in a statement shared on Twitter said Mr. Hariri wasn’t willing to discuss amendments to his proposals.

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