Lebanon: Saad Hariri taken back at his post of Prime Minister

It will be the third mandate of the Prime Minister, charged to form a government after legislative of May 6th.

Nearly three weeks after the legislative elections and in spite of the electoral failure of his movement, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, Saad Hariri, was confirmed in his functions Thursday afternoon.

In accordance with “article 53 of the Constitution, the Head of the State Michel Aoun convened the Prime Minister Saad Hariri and charged it with forming a government”, the presidency indicated.

Michel Aoun held constraining parliamentary consultations Thursday, in accordance with the Constitution, to appoint the Prime Minister. These consultations intervene the shortly after the plenary session of Wednesday, the first behaviour by the new parliamentary Parliament, during whom the deputies re–elected Nabih Berri in charge of the Parliament.

Saad Hariri, 48 years, was taken back in spite of his electoral reverse. Its political party, the Current of the Future, lost the third of its seats. It has from now on 21 deputies, against 33 in the Outgoing parliament. It is the third mandate like Prime Minister of Saad Hariri, who had already been in charge of the government between 2009 and 2011 then since the end of 2016.

This poll was marked by a low participation rate, of 49,2%, the consolidation of the influence of Hezbollah Shiite like by the emergence of a movement of the civil society disputing the parties in power, which however took down only one seat. The political current of president Michel Aoun gained 29 seats, which makes of it from now on the most important block of the new hemicycle.

The name of Hariri, the party “the Current of the Future” and which directed the outgoing government, was proposed by 111 of the 128 members of the Chamber of Deputies.
Lebanon is governed by a complex system of division of the powers between the various religious communities: the president is necessarily Christian, Moslem the Prime Minister Sunni and the Shiite Moslem Speaker of Parliament.

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