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Lebanon PM says new cabinet faces ‘catastrophe’
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Leb faces a ’catastrophe’, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Wednesday after his newly unveiled cabinet held its first meeting to tackle the twin challenges of a tenacious protest movement and a nosediving economy."Today we are in a financial, economic and social dead end," he said in remarks read by a government official after the new cabinet’s inaugural meeting in Beirut. "We are facing a catastrophe," he said. Diab, who replaced Saad Hariri  ...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....as prime minister, vowed to meet the demands from the street but demonstrators were unconvinced and scuffled with police overnight. I'll be surprised if that's not just verbal drool. The new cabinet's mostly FPM, Amal, and Hezbollah. I think there was one seat doled out to the Armenian party. Posted by: Fred 2020-01-24 |
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