President Sleiman meets with PM-Designate Salam

                                
President Michel Sleiman met on Tuesday with Prime Minister-Designate Tammam Salam at the Baabda Palace.                  

Talks between President Salam and PM-Designate Salam featured high on the formation of the new government. 

Salam was named Prime Minister-Designate after the second round of the binding parliamentary consultations to name a prime minister ended on April 6 at the Baabda Palace, with 124 deputies nominating Salam as Prime Minister.

Salam's main task will be to steer the fractious country towards a parliamentary election which is due in June but is now widely expected to face delays.

Outgoing Prime Minister Najib Mikati resigned last month after two fraught years in office during which he sought to contain sectarian tensions, street violence and economic fallout from the civil war raging in neighboring Syria.