Berri discusses binding PM consultations with Aoun

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri held talks Tuesday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Balace, in a protocol meeting that followed his re-election for a seventh term as parliament speaker.

Asked whether the issue of binding parliamentary consultations to name a new premier was discussed in the talks, Berri said: “Certainly.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s government became a caretaker government on May 22, in the wake of the May 15 parliamentary elections.

Media reports have said that Berri, Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement prefer the re-nomination of Miqati for the post but “will not let him form a new government.”