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
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