Lebanon's newly appointed premier Mustapha Adib speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, on August 31, 2020. - Lebanon named its envoy to Germany as the new premier to steer the country through a deep crisis after the Beirut explosion compounded a sharp economic downturn.
Adib has been Lebanon’s ambassador to Germany since 2013 and his name only emerged on Sunday to replace Hassan Diab, whose government resigned in the aftermath of the deadly August 4 blast at Beirut port. It says he has conducted “research and expert work in the areas of both human and state security, parliamentary oversight of the security sector, decentralisation and local democracy, and electoral laws”.
An acquaintance of Adib from Tripoli who asked not to be named described him as “calm, courteous and diplomatic”. Activists on social media were quick to compare Adib to Diab, who had promised to lead Lebanon’s first government of technocrats when he took office in January but showed no ability to break from his political sponsors.
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