Gemayel says current vacuum in Lebanon is ‘scary and destructive’

Following his meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday , former lebanese president and current Phalange party leader Amin Gemayel said that the current vacuum in Lebanon is “scary and destructive,” National News Agency quoted him as saying. (more…)

Aridi says Lebanon is heading toward chaos

Caretaker Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi told LBC television on Sunday: “Because of what’s happening today in the country, we must be ready for anything,” adding, “We are heading toward chaos.”

Aridi commented on Thursday’s Telecom ministry incident blaming it on mismanagement (more…)

Al-Akhbar: Jumblatt says Hezbollah’does not want to form a cabinet’

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said on Friday that the report in Al-Akhbar newspaper where he was quoted as saying that Hezbollah “does not want to form a new cabinet,” and that Hezbollah is using Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun as a façade to delay cabinet formation, is accurate. (more…)

Geagea: A sin cannot be corrected with another

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Wednesday that the lack of a new Lebanese cabinet “is a grave sin.”

Commenting on Speaker Nabih Berri’s recent request to hold a parliamentary session before a new government is formed, Geagea said in a statement (more…)

Mufti Qabbani: Aoun’s remarks are not fit for a politician

Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, Mufti of the Lebanese Republic condemned on Tuesday Free patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun’s criticism of President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati. (more…)

Chatah: Feltman did not discuss Lebanese cabinet formation

Former Lebanese Finance minister Mohammad Chatah who is the current political adviser to caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri denied on Saturday discussing the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet with US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman during their meeting in Beirut . (more…)

Verbal war between Aoun, Mikati escalates

MP Fadi al-Aawar, said on Thursday that the Change and Reform bloc was close to a decision to withhold the nomination of Premier-designate Najib Mikati.

Al-Aawar , who is a member of Hezbollah but allocated to FPM leader Michel Aoun’s bloc told Voice of Lebanon radio (more…)

Aoun launches another attack against Mikati

Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun criticized PM Designate Nagib Mikati following a meeting with his bloc on Tuesday. (more…)

Mikati: No link between US position and obstacles facing cabinet formation

Lebanon PM Designate Nagib Mikati sources strongly denied any link between the US position and the obstacles facing the formation of the new cabinet . (more…)

Aoun launches another attack against Lebanon president

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun launched another attack against Lebanese president Michel Suleiman saying he does not have the right” to demand any cabinet portfolios because he was “elected on a neutral basis” and “does not have any share in parliament.” (more…)