Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi announced Sunday his resignation from the Cabinet, blaming Hezbollah and their allies for the country's political crisis, which has seen it without a president for 21 months and paralyzed state institutions.
Rifi presented his resignation to Prime Minister Tammam Salam, pointing out that he remains steadfast on the path of late PM Rafik Hariri and the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution.
"The practices of Hezbollah's statelet and its allies are not acceptable and continuing to be part of this government has become an agreement to this deviation, or at least is a failure to confront it," Rifi said in a statement.
He also slammed the Cabinet's failure to find a solution to the seven-month-long waste management crisis. He went on to condemn Hezbollah for "obstructing" the referral of Michel Samaha's case to the Judicial Council.
Rifi concluded by calling upon the government to apologize to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, urging it to resign.