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Lebanon: Aoun, Hariri Exchange War of Words Over Cabinet Deadlock Published December 15th, 2020 - 07:36 GMT
A Lebanese man wearing a Santa Claus outfit, entertains children at a Christmas market set up on Martyr s square, the epicentre of anti-government protests, in the capital Beirut s downtown district, on December 13, 2020. ANWAR AMRO / AFP
President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Monday engaged in a “war of words,” reflecting tensions between them and a widening gap over the makeup of a new government badly needed to enact reforms and rescue Lebanon’s crumbling economy.
The tensions between Aoun and Hariri, less than a week after the premier-designate submitted a draft Cabinet lineup to the president, and a raging juidicial row sparked by a prosecutor’s charges filed against caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers for negligence in the Beirut Port explosion, have dashed hopes for the formation of a new government
Aoun-Hariri’s war of words casts gloom on Cabinet formation Hussein Dakroub
BEIRUT: President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Monday engaged in a “war of words,” reflecting tensions between them and a widening gap over the makeup of a new government badly needed to enact reforms and rescue Lebanon’s crumbling economy.
The tensions between Aoun and Hariri, less than a week after the premier-designate submitted a draft Cabinet lineup to the president, and a raging juidicial row sparked by a prosecutor’s charges filed against caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and three former ministers for negligence in the Beirut Port explosion, have dashed hopes for the formation of a new government ahead of a new visit to Lebanon by French President Emmanuel Macron next week.
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri snapped back Monday at President Michel Aoun’s adviser, ex-minister Salim Jreissati, and accused Baabda of being the party delaying the formation of the new government.
Hariri’s statement, issued by his press office, comes in response to an open letter addressed to him by Jreissati that has been published in An-Nahar newspaper.
Below is the full text of an English-language statement distributed by Hariri’s press office:
“The open letter addressed by the Advisor to the President of the Republic, Minister Salim Jreissati, to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, in An-Nahar newspaper, requires drawing his attention to two matters.
Mon 14 Dec 2020 at 15:54 Politics
NNA - The Press Office of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri issued the following statement:
The open letter addressed by the Advisor to the President of the Republic, Minister Salim Jreissati, to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, in An-Nahar newspaper, requires drawing his attention to two matters.
First: The answers that the advisor is looking for are with His Excellency the President of the Republic.
Second: The information he missed is perhaps due to the advisor’s lack of access to all the data that the President has.
The Prime Minister-designate met with the President of the Republic 12 times, in a relentless attempt to reach an understanding on the formation of the government. Each time, he would express his satisfaction with the discussion, but u