Al-Mustaqbal: Responsibility of Crisis Lies on those who Toppled Hariri’s Cabinet

Al-Mustaqbal bloc sources have blamed the parties who were behind the toppling of Caretaker PM Saad Hariri’s cabinet for the current government formation impasse.

“The actual responsibility of the crisis lies on those who toppled Caretaker Premier Saad Hariri’s government and claimed that his presence in Lebanon was hindering the formation of the new cabinet,” sources told An Nahar daily about the March 8 forces.

Hariri “is currently outside Lebanon and the formation crisis continues,” they stressed.

Asked about reports that Hariri would return to Lebanon to reactivate the work of the caretaker cabinet, the sources said: “The issue is linked to the constitution which has a narrow definition of caretaking.”

But “if there are certain events such as the appointment of a new governor for the Central Bank, then it exists a solution to confront it,” they added.

On Speaker Nabih Berri’s efforts to hold a parliamentary session to appoint the governor or resolve the crisis of overcrowded prisons, they said that such a move was only aimed at turning a blind eye to the differences between Premier-designate Najib Miqati and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.

The Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc urged Miqati on Tuesday to reject the formation of a “confrontational cabinet” that deepens internal divisions.

The bloc blamed the “unjustified delay” on the March 8 alliance. It met for the first time at al-Qantari palace, the former residence of ex-Presidents Beshara al-Khouri and Camile Chamoun.

Comments 4
Default-user-icon USa (Guest) over 13 years

March 8 is a joke.

Default-user-icon Sarita Gonzalez (Guest) over 13 years

people wanted the change, they got it, and what have they gotten in "condition of change" for benefit of the country? NOTHING to add in progress for country and its citizens, but many losts what have affected many sectors, but with the difference, that lost gotten now, have FUL NAME, so what was showed is, that the topic to improve the development in country, doesnt lay only in intention of catching the power, it lays in the REAL CAPACITY OF DOING, ,

Default-user-icon Salim (Guest) over 13 years

I wonder why March 14 are wining, unless they see themselves as the joke.

Default-user-icon Kris (Guest) over 13 years

The joke is "the people's idiocy in voting for incompetent so called politicians". If you eat "Fasoulia" everyday you will get sick of it and start eating something else. Every Lebanese citizen who voted for such an official has been fed bullshit by that official for the past 50 years. Yet for reasons i just cannot comprehend they still enjoy the taste of bullshit.

"where is the common sense?"