Lebanon’s parliament on Monday approved Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s new cabinet, tasked with pulling the country out of a deep economic crisis after 13 months of political deadlock.
Mikati’s 24-member cabinet, unveiled earlier this month after protracted horse-trading, will be expected to offer solutions to shortages of medicine and fuel and to launch a ration card programme to protect the poorest. Videos circulating on social media showed lawmakers gathering in a courtyard outside the building before electricity was restored.“This is embarrassing,” lawmaker Teymour Jumblatt told a reporter. “This is not a country.”
Mikati, reading a statement to lawmakers ahead of the confidence vote, pledged to “resume talks with IMF and develop a plan to revive the economy”.
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