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08 October 2020, 23:32 Hariri: I'm the natural nominee for premiership, I'll make contacts this week and I haven't changed my stance on giving the finance portfolio to the Shiite sect.
08 October 2020, 22:41 Hariri: The latest phone call with Walid Jumblat was stormy and he wanted me to accept granting the finance portfolio to the Shiite sect for good.
08 October 2020, 22:13 Hariri: I’m a nominee for the PM post without that being a favor from anyone and the issue of border demarcation moved forward due to the recent sanctions.
08 October 2020, 21:47 Hariri: The rotation of portfolios was Speaker Berri's idea when Tammam Salam's government was formed.
08 October 2020, 21:42 Hariri: The stances were escalated after the U.S. sanctions after the initial positivity towards the French initiative.
08 October 2020, 21:41 Hariri: Does the finance portfolio deserve torpedoing the rescue initiative for halting the collapse and reconstructing Beirut? We agreed at the Pine Residence that the political parties would keep away from the government and that specialists would be named ministers for the rescue mission.
08 October 2020, 21:32 Hariri: Hizbullah and the Amal Movement insist on nominating Saad Hariri only to avoid Sunni-Shiite tensions.
08 October 2020, 21:30 Hariri: The French initiative is still alive.
08 October 2020, 21:29 Hariri: When Macron came to Lebanon, I agreed with him on the formation of a mission government for six months, whose mission would have been to stop the collapse and rebuild Beirut, but political forces rejected to nominate me.
08 October 2020, 21:27 Hariri: The French initiative has not fallen and Macron spoke of a mistake that happened but he then said that Saad Hariri had made a brave initiative.
08 October 2020, 21:24 Hariri: There are three projects in the country -- that of Hizbullah and the Amal Movement which is linked to foreign forces, another that wants to pull Lebanon out of this crisis and works according to the ‘Lebanon first’ principle, and a third for overbidders who have brought the country to its current state.
08 October 2020, 21:19 Hariri: Arms have imposed some unacceptable equations on the Lebanese.
08 October 2020, 21:18 Hariri: Any constitution in the world cannot succeed in the presence of parties that impose things through force.
08 October 2020, 19:08 Lebanon recorded 1,367 new coronavirus cases and six deaths over the past 24 hours.
08 October 2020, 16:29 The U.N. special coordinator and the FMs of France and Germany called for a "credible government in Lebanon without further delay, to start implementing reforms."
08 October 2020, 16:01 The Loyalty to Resistance bloc said the border talks with Israel are not linked to "the reconciliation course" with Israel nor to the "normalization policies."
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