Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun said he would spare no effort to resolve the current nodes hampering the formation of the new government.
In parallel, "Hezbollah" Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah insisted on the representation of the Sunnis of March 8 bloc in the cabinet, few hours after meeting with caretaker Foreign Affairs Minister Gebran Bassil.
In a televised speech on Saturday, Nasrallah said Hezbollah had informed the concerned parties that it would not accept a government that did not represent the “independent Sunni deputies.”
He stressed that his party was not against the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) having “more than the vetoing third, because we are allies.”
“We were sincere when we spoke of a national unity government. There is no national logic, or moral logic, or legal logic ... for anyone in Lebanon to come out and say ‘it is forbidden for the Sunnis of March 8 to be represented in the Lebanese government,” Nasrallah said.
“If it is forbidden, come let’s talk again from the start,” he added.
Saturday’s meeting between Nasrallah and Bassil focused on the formation of the government and the means to resolve the nodes impeding the birth of the new cabinet. Informed sources described the meeting as “good”, pointing out that there was an exchange of ideas for a solution, awaiting the return of Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri to Beirut.
Meanwhile, Aoun told his visitors on Saturday that he would exert all possible efforts to overcome obstacles hampering government’s formation.
The president said that he would spare no effort to “solve the complexities that stand in the way of the formation of the new cabinet.”
“It takes the courage and patience to reach a happy end, but we will definitely find the solution because waiting is a waste of time,” he affirmed.
