Miqati Determined to Accelerate Appointment of Top Civil Servants

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Prime Minister Najib Miqati is determined to accelerate the appointment of top civil servants in state posts and to pressure cabinet ministers to exert efforts concerning this issue, As Safir newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Sources close to Miqati said that the premier is keen to overcome the obstacles facing the appointments.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel also told As Safir that he is at the final stages of naming the candidates for the vacant posts of governors at the end of April.

According to the daily, Charbel tackled the issue with Minister of State for Administrative Reform Mohammed Fneish.

Fneish has also discussed with Minister of Health Ali Hassan Khalil the appointments in the vacant posts in public hospitals.

“It is time for the cabinet to end the dispute over appointments,” Fneish told As Safir.

He stressed that all the ministries carried out its tasks concerning the issue as the appointments mechanism was set to appoint those who are efficient.

He revealed that the vacancies in state posts are over 40 percent.

Ministers have continuously failed to agree on the head of the Higher Judicial Council as President Michel Suleiman and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun are at loggerheads over who should be appointed.

The post of the head of the HJC had been vacant for over a year following the retirement of Judge Ghaleb Ghanem.

The cabinet approved in March three uncontroversial administrative appointments.

It appointed three new directors general: Antoine Jebran as head of the Human Rights department at the Civil Service Council, Nathalie Yared as head of the council's research and orientation department and Mona Awwad as head of ministerial affairs at the premier’s office.

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