Reports: Berri Told to Pick Non-Shiite Figure for Finance Ministry

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Speaker Nabih Berri has been asked to name any Sunni, Christian or Druze candidate he approves of for the finance ministerial portfolio, in the latest suggestion aimed at breaking the deadlock and facilitating the formation of the new government, media reports said.

“This would protect the principle of the rotation of portfolios,” Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper quoted unnamed sources as saying in remarks published Sunday, noting that such a move would dissuade the Free Patriotic Movement from insisting on the energy portfolio.

MP Qassem Hashem of Berri’s Development and Liberation bloc meanwhile told the newspaper that “there will be no government without the allocation of the finance portfolio to the dear Shiite sect, on the basis of achieving balance and real partnership.”

“Those seeking a challenge must acknowledge that this norm is unbreakable,” Hashem added.

Comments 6
Thumb ansarullah over 3 years

God bless hezbollah and Iran for making the Finance Ministry a Shia right in accordance with the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Shia Shia Shia !!!

Missing mcessen1 over 3 years

You forgot to replace the "a" whith a "t".

Missing phillipo over 3 years

Berri asked to choose, Aoun demands to choose. Abid refuses to throw in the towel and resign. He will never get the non-political, non-sectarial government that he wants and that Lebanon deserves.

Thumb lebnanfirst over 3 years

One can turn around and ask you the same question you asked him.

Missing samiam over 3 years

Thieves trying to hide what they stole---they don't want a new government coming in and looking over how much ali hassan khalil stole from the country and want to steal any new money coming in from CEDRE and the IMF.

Missing arturo over 3 years

Hezbollah will never let him do that and they control the military and government.