Back since Sunday, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri is expected to visit the presidential palace in Baabda on Friday, a media source said. Today he met the President of the Chamber of Deputies Nabih Berri, for a meeting described as decisive.
This list should include 24 ministerial portfolios without further details for the time being. It is therefore not known whether the two men responded to the requests of the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, who accused them of violating the National Pact with a cabinet comprising a third of Christian ministers, another third Sunni and a third third. Shiite.
The other pitfall related to the allocation of key ministries of justice and the interior that General Aoun would like to obtain, ministries all the more key as relatives of Saad Hariri and Nabih Berri are summoned by the Lebanese justice. Saad Hariri is the governor of the Banque du Liban Riad Salamé in the context of a Swiss investigation into possible embezzlement of central bank funds and the former director of the port of Beirut Hassan Koreitem in the context of the investigation into the explosion of the Port of Beirut.
Nabih Berri, for his part, sees his right-hand man, the former finance minister of the Hariri II and III government, Ali Hassan Khalil, also being summoned by the justice system, like another member of the Amal movement, the deputy Ghazi Zoater, himself also former Minister of Transport.
