'I am sticking by the rule 'not me, rather someone else' to form a government that addresses the aspirations of the young men and women' Lebanon's Saad Hariri says he does not want to be PM
Saad Hariri's outgoing cabinet is serving in a caretaker capacity as leaders haggle over the make-up of the next government.
He hoped his move would "open doors to a solution" and swiftly lead to a presidential "call for binding parliamentary consultations to appoint a new premier."Street protests demanding an overhaul of Lebanon's entire political system have rocked the small Mediterranean country since mid-October, forcing Saad Hariri to announce his cabinet's resignation on October 29.
The Free Patriotic Movement , a Christian party founded by Aoun, has accused Hariri of delaying the process by refusing to accept any other candidate for the premiership, a charge the Sunni Muslim has denied. "The next government will have to be a hybrid government that will include mostly technocrats but it will also include a number of politicians," he told AFP news agency.
On Tuesday, FPM supporters confronted dozens of protesters who were calling on the president to schedule parliamentary consultations.
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