Report: Salam rejects Jaber, asks Berri to send new names
Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has reversed his approval of allotting the finance portfolio to ex-MP Yassine Jaber who is close to Speaker Nabih Berri, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.
Salam informed President Joseph Aoun in their meeting on Wednesday that “there is a main obstacle with the Amal and Hezbollah duo, in addition to disagreements over some names,” the newspaper said.
He added that “the other hurdles are solvable, seeing as he is taking the Sunni bloc for granted, and he also agrees with President Aoun that the obstacles related to Christians can be easily resolved once the problem with Shiites is settled,” the daily added.
Informed sources meanwhile told al-Akhbar that Salam called Berri after departing the Baabda Palace, asking him for “new names,” with the Speaker telling him that he “will not be late in sending the names along with Hezbollah,” advising him to “hurry up in devising a cabinet line-up and announcing it within days.”
Salam is meanwhile “totally ignoring the Free Patriotic Movement when he talks about the Christian share, as if he is seeking to push MP Jebran Bassil not to take part,” the sources added.
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