Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat has showed flexibility and willingness to give up one of three seats reserved for the Druze community in the new government, a media report said.
Jumblat is however conditioning this on getting “two essential portfolios: agriculture and health/public works,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.
“This will create a new hurdle, seeing as Hizbullah and the Marada Movement are not willing to give up these two portfolios,” the daily quoted senior March 8 sources as saying.
Al-Akhbar also reported that the previous “Druze obstacle” would be resolved through a swap between Jumblat and President Michel Aoun under which the PSP would get a Christian seat in return for a Druze seat for the president.
Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement had been insisting on giving one of the Druze seats to their ally MP Talal Arslan.
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