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“God willing, all will be well,” Adib told reporters following the meeting in Beirut on Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sources familiar with the matter said Adib did not hand over a list of ministerial names as had been anticipated.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The sources said Adib told the president he would return in a few days while Aoun consulted with various political factions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Adib agreed that the sides take their time to recrystallize the government formation in a way to protect it, according to the sources.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On Sunday, the office of Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri voiced his opposition to the manner Adib was forming a new cabinet, saying his Amal Movement would not participate in the next administration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Berri’s grievance was over what is said to be resorting to ‘foreign leverage’ in forming the cabinet. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
The senior legislator, however, stressed that his party would cooperate with the next government for the sake of national stability as well as ending a crippling economic crisis that has been aggravated in the wake of a disastrous explosion at Beirut’s port in August.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Berri on the phone in an effort to remove an obstacle around the finance ministry post, a demand that was turned down by Berri.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The French president has used a provocative colonial tone during his recent visits to Lebanon.<\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2020-09-17 20:44:03","content_date_finish":"2020-09-17 20:44:03","content_date_register":"2020-09-17 20:45:25","content_date_last_edit":"2020-09-17 20:45:25","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"0","content_show_related_img":"0","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"1","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"0","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","tag_id":"15442","tag_word":"Michel Aoun,Michel Aoun,Mustapha Adib,Mustapha Adib,Lebanon,Lebanon","tag_service":"0","tag_total":"4","tag_soundex":"","attach_token":"2939583618","attach_date_register":"2020-09-17 20:45:20","attach_id":"10258","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"1000","attach_img_height":"560","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"341","visit_date_last":"2024-11-26 01:29:41","attach_title":"Lebanon\u2019s new premier says needs more time to form cabinet\n 2","node_title":"Lebanon,News","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":98, \"left\":2, \"right\":11},{\"node_id\":118, \"left\":47, \"right\":48}]","node_number":"6","allowable_node":"6"}]]