{"id":25228,"date":"2018-12-12T05:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25228"},"modified":"2018-12-12T05:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T05:23:30","slug":"lebanons-aoun-intervening-in-stalled-effort-to-form-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25228","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s Aoun intervening in stalled effort to form government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1419061\/middle-east\" readability=\"70\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Iran was accused on Tuesday of sabotaging the formation of a government in Lebanon as President Michel Aoun intervened to try to end the impasse.<\/p>\n<p>\nPolitical negotiations have been deadlocked since elections in May, in a row over representation in the Cabinet for six Sunni members of Parliament allied with Hezbollah. The 30 ministerial posts are allocated according to a sectarian political system.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe issue is associated with what Iran wants and what it is given, to agree to the formation of a government or to continue hampering it,\u201d the Minister of Refugees Affairs, Moeen Al-Marabi, a member of Prime Minister Saad Hariri\u2019s Future Movement parliamentary bloc, told Arab News.<\/p>\n<p>\nPresident Aoun said: \u201cWe are launching an initiative &#8230; and it has to succeed, because if it doesn\u2019t &#8230; there is a catastrophe, we want to say it with all frankness, and this is the reason for my intervention.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nHe has held meetings with Hariri, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Hezbollah representative Mohammed Raad MP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nHariri left Lebanon on Tuesday to attend an economic forum in London on investment and structural reforms in Lebanon. \u201cGod willing, we will find solutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere are those who wish to form a government while others do not. We must give the president the chance to conduct his consultations.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cEveryone will be held accountable if a solution is not reached, not only the president and me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Iran was accused on Tuesday of sabotaging the formation of a government in Lebanon as President Michel Aoun intervened to try to end the impasse. Political negotiations have been deadlocked since elections in May, in a row over representation in the Cabinet for six Sunni members of Parliament allied with Hezbollah. The 30 ministerial&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}