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Lebanon PM Mikati says he won't run in May parliamentary election

Lebanon Najib Mikati
FILE PHOTO: Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon February 10, 2022. Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERS

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday he would not seek re-election in a parliamentary election scheduled for May 15.

The statement, made in a TV address, throws Sunni politics in Lebanon into deeper disarray. It follows an announcement by ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri in January that he would withdraw from political life and that his Future Movement, which now has some 20 members of parliament, would not field candidates.

(Reporting by Timour Azhari Editing by Gareth Jones)

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