Hizbullah Dubs as 'Waste of Time' Any Attempt to Form Technocrat Cabinet
Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad reiterated on Sunday that the new government would not be able to run Lebanon's affairs if its members were not political figures, hinting that a technocrat cabinet was a “waste of time.”
“The cabinet will not be able to govern Lebanon if it was not political,” Raad said. “It doesn’t only have the mission of supervising the parliamentary elections.”
“It faces other issues such as the Syrian refugees in Lebanon which is a bigger mission than holding the polls,” he said.
“So how could a non-political government deal with this situation?” the Hizbullah official wondered.
The cabinet formation is deadlocked over conflicting demands by the country's two main camps.
The Hizbullah-led March 8 alliance wants a cabinet of political figures to be able to address security concerns while the March 14 coalition is after members who are not running in the parliamentary elections.
Premier-designate Tammam Salam has said he would form a “government of national interest” to supervise the elections. He has ruled out provocative political figures to avoid dragging differences between the rival parties to the executive authority.
But Raad reiterated that Lebanon needs an all-embracing political cabinet, saying that technocrats would fail in governing the country.
The lawmaker hinted that Salam “would be wasting his time” if he sought to form a government of technocrats.
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