Aoun Slams Those 'Creating New Norms' in Govt. Formation
President Michel Aoun on Tuesday accused some parties of seeking to create “new norms” for the formation of governments in Lebanon.
“A political battle is behind the failure to form a government and it seems that there is a change in traditions and norms,” Aoun said in Bkirki as he took part in Christmas Day Mass.
“We are living a cabinet formation crisis. Pray so that the difficulties can be resolved,” the president told reporters.
“It seems that some are creating new norms in the formation of governments which we did not witness before and we need some time to find solutions,” Aoun added.
He was apparently referring to a dispute with Hizbullah and a grouping of six Sunni MPs over the nomination of a Sunni minister by the aforementioned bloc.
The dispute has been delaying the formation of the new government for several months now after previous and also long-running disagreements over Christian and Druze representation were resolved.
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