Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri met Monday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace to put him in the picture of the latest developments regarding the cabinet formation process.
Hariri left the presidential palace without making a statement but media reports said the visit was “for consultations, not for submitting a cabinet line-up.”
Later on Monday, state-run National News Agency said Hariri noted that he will “continue his contacts with the relevant parties, especially that positive indications have surfaced as a result of these consultations.”
Sources informed on the formation process meanwhile told al-Jadeed television that “the government will be formed within days and all parties are cooperating.”
“There is no obstacle that is impossible to resolve,” the sources added.
Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) meanwhile quoted informed sources as saying that “all parties have shown positivity, especially that the government has a specific mission which is holding the elections.”
The political forces are reportedly pushing for forming the cabinet before Independence Day, which Lebanon marks on November 22.
Horsetrading is currently revolving around the distribution of the so-called sovereign ministerial portfolios – finance, defense, foreign affairs and interior – and other key portfolios like energy and public works.
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