...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
for reinstating his caretaker cabinet without changing any of its ministers, TV networks said.
"Presidency Secretary-General Antoine Choucair visited PM Najib Mikati at the Grand Serail on Monday morning, prior to the latter’s departure to Algeria for representing Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...at the Arab Summit," al-Jadeed TV said.
"Choucair proposed to Mikati issuing (formation) decrees for the same (caretaker) cabinet so that it overcomes the constitutional obstacles, which prompted Mikati to ask Choucair about confidence in the government and whether Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil had decided to grant it," the TV network added.
"Choucair said that it is up to parliament to decide, without giving Mikati a decisive answer on whether the FPM’s MPs would grant the government their confidence. Mikati then informed Choucair that the plane was waiting for him to take him to Algeria, thanking the visitor for his rejected offer," al-Jadeed said.
Aoun’s six-year term expired at midnight and parliament has failed four times to elect a successor. Aoun and the FPM have argued that the caretaker cabinet is not eligible to assume the president’s powers in the event of a presidential vacuum.