Tuesday, 25 May, 2021 - 05:45
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun talks to Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during a cabinet meeting in Baabda near Beirut, Lebanon December 5, 2017. (Reuters)
Beirut – Caroline Akoum
Head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil has recently called on President Michel Aoun to hold a national dialogue, amid severe disputes over the formation of a new government.
Sources close to the president said that dialogue was one of the options on the table if the government deadlock continued, adding: “But no decision has been taken so far in this regard; the idea is being discussed and assessed because the priority now is to form a government.”