Caretaker PM threatens to stop running government in Lebanon

Caretaker PM threatens to stop running government in Lebanon
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Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab threatened on Saturday to stop performing his duties to pressure politicians to form a new government. 
"If seclusion helps with cabinet formation, then I am ready to resort to it, although it goes against my convictions for it disrupts the entire state and is detrimental to the Lebanese," Diab said in a speech. 
Diab's cabinet resigned on the back of the August 4 Beirut port explosion that devastated swathes of the capital. 
Prime minister-designate Saad al-Hariri was nominated in October but has failed to form a new cabinet so far due to political deadlock between him and President Michel Aoun. 

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