Details Emerge about Possible Final Govt. Line-Up
The latest government formation contacts have managed to resolve a number of obstacles, keeping some of the candidates of the recent draft line-up and re-distribution some portfolios, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Below are the new line-up’s details according to the daily:
- Keeping Dr. Saade al-Shami as deputy PM, as per Miqati’s line-up
- Dropping the name of Marwan Abou Fadel and the return of President Aoun’s nomination of Brig. Gen. Maurice Slim for the defense portfolio
- The interior and justice obstacles have been resolved and retired Tripolitan judge Bassam Mawlawi has emerged as a candidate for the interior portfolio (from Miqati’s list of suggestions)
- State Shura Council judge Rita Ghantous Karam -- the wife of Judge Claude Karam and daughter of retired judge Georges Ghantous -- has emerged as a candidate for the justice portfolio
- Marada will get the telecom and information portfolios for the two Maronite candidates Johnny al-Korm and Georges Kourdahi
- A Sunni candidate will be allotted the economy portfolio and the social affairs portfolio will be allocated to candidate named by Aoun
- Aoun’s demand of allotting the social affairs portfolio to Raymond Tarabay has been dropped
- The energy portfolio obstacle has been resolved and will be allotted to Dr. Walid Fayyad as per Aoun’s suggestion
02 September 2021, 00:32
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Surely you don't give a damn because you are only here to try to whitewash israel.
02 September 2021, 12:27
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Actually I am here hoping that one of these days in the not too distant future Lebanese and Israelis will be able to sit down together and finally complete the peace process that was started in the 1980's.
Looking at the situation I just wonder how the situation in Lebanon could be improved after such an agreement.
Electricity - as a first step, Lebanon could connect with the Israeli National Grid.
Natural Gas - until its own fields are on-line, Lebanon could receive gas from the Israeli fields.
Agriculture - Israeli know-how is worldwide in use.
Tourism - How many thousands of Lebanese would love to go to visit the churches in Nazareth and Jerusalem, and Haram as Sharif in Jerusalem.
02 September 2021, 12:23
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No one should even give a damn to Aoun, whose term is almost finished as a president and with it the end of Basil. It's a matter of time until these two midgets disappear from the face of this earth. Then, Basil would be brought to justice for stealing billions from the energy ministry and would be jailed and rot there.
