Report: March 8 to Confront March 13 Rally with Stronger Efforts to Form the Cabinet

No solution was in sight for the formation of the cabinet before March 14 although Premier-designate Najib Miqati was holding consultations away from the spotlight in a bid to break the deadlock.

Miqati held talks with Central Bank governor Riad Salameh on Sunday after a meeting they held the day before on the sidelines of the ceremony in honor of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir in Bkirki.

Informed political sources told An Nahar daily in remarks published Monday that efforts by the March 14 forces to hold a mass rally on the sixth anniversary of the Cedar Revolution aimed at stressing their principles would be faced by strong attempts by the March 8 coalition to rush the formation of the government after March 13.

March 8 would also seek to agree with Miqati on the major headlines of the policy statement after the March 13 rally, the sources said.

Although no progress has yet been made on the formation of the cabinet, Miqati will launch a new round of consultations in the next few days, an informed source told As Safir newspaper.

He would most probably meet with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun or his envoy to solve the deadlock over the interior ministry portfolio, the source said.