Bassil: President Aoun must be informed of Cabinet lineup details before referring it to Parliament

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Bassil: President Aoun must be informed of Cabinet lineup details before referring it to Parliament
Lebanese President Michel Aoun did not intend to revoke prime minister designate Saad Hariri's mandate when he wrote to parliament last week declaring that Hariri could not form a government, Aoun's son-in-law said on Saturday.
 
Veteran Sunni Muslim politician Hariri was nominated in October to form a cabinet after Hassan Diab's government resigned in the wake of the Beirut port explosion which killed 200 people and damaged large swathes of the capital.
 
But Hariri and Aoun have been at loggerheads for months over cabinet positions, blocking the formation of a government. Diab and his cabinet have stayed on in a caretaker capacity, but investors worry that without a new government in place, reforms cannot be enacted to end a financial crisis.
 
In a letter read out to parliament on Friday, Aoun said Hariri could not form a cabinet. This was seen by some politicians as an effective declaration that someone else would have to be found to take the role of prime minister.
 
But Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil, leader of Lebanon's largest Christian bloc, said removing Hariri was not Aoun's aim.
 
"The purpose is not to take back the designation from the prime minister-designate," Bassil told a parliament session convened to discuss the letter.
 
He also called for a dialogue session, "with the first article on its agenda being the cabinet formation and the second being the reforms."
 
Bassil also noted that the president has no right to approve a government formation that will not gain the parliament’s confidence, adding thus that Aoun must be informed of the details of the formation.
 
Speaking to lawmakers, Hariri said he would not choose a cabinet to suit the aims of Aoun.
 
"I will not form a government as the team of his Excellency the president wants it, nor any other political faction. I will only form the kind of government needed to stop collapse and prevent the big crash that is threatening the Lebanese," Hariri said.
 
The parliament session ended with the speaker calling on Hariri to form a cabinet with the approval of Aoun.
 
 


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