{"id":40414,"date":"2019-08-08T21:23:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40414"},"modified":"2019-08-08T21:23:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:23:29","slug":"tunisia-pm-chahed-announces-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40414","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia PM Chahed announces run for president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"104\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT:\u00a0Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed optimism about the chances of putting an end to the political crisis that has paralyzed the Cabinet for more than five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter meeting with President Michel Aoun in the presence of Lebanon\u2019s Security Chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, Hariri said: \u201cSolutions are near to fruition and I am more optimistic than before. The meeting was very positive. We must just wait a little and we will be hearing good news soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMaj. Gen. Ibrahim conducted the mediation between the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and the Lebanese Democratic Party (LDP) to find a solution to the crisis caused by a shoot-out between Druze factions in the Chouf Mountains on June 30. He simply said: \u201cThe atmosphere is excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThis development, that is expected to end the political impasse in Lebanon, took place one day after the strong statement issued Wednesday by the US Embassy in Beirut, warning against \u201cany attempt to exploit the tragic incident that took place in Kabreshmoun to promote political objectives\u201d and stressing \u201cthe need for the Lebanese authorities to handle the case in a way that achieves justice without inciting sectarian and regional conflicts with political backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nPM Hariri is expected to visit to the US shortly, where he may meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile the positive results reached by the Aoun-Hariri meeting remained unknown, an adviser to Hariri, Dr. Ammar Houri, told Arab News that the \u201catmosphere was positive,\u201d expecting a Cabinet session to be held \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanese media outlets said the session\u2019s agenda \u201cwill not include referring the Kabreshmoun incident to the Judicial Council,\u201d the subject that sparked the inter-Druze clash and then the disagreement between the PSP and Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Hezbollah parliamentary bloc condemned what it considered \u201cany foreign interventions in the internal affairs, whatever their source was, as they do not serve the national interest and do not want to do the country any good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cSparring and fighting cannot lead to a solution nor resolve the problem, and amid the ongoing economic bleeding, we demand to find a solution for the political deadlock.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanon\u2019s English-language daily newspaper, the Daily Star, expressed in its Thursday\u2019s issue the impasse of political, economic and social situation in a very stark form.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe front page of the print edition was completely black, with the word \u201cLebanon\u201d written across the middle in white. The 10 inside pages were bare except for a black strip across the middle bearing the following phrases: Government deadlock; Sectarian rhetoric increasing by the day; Trash continues to pile up in the streets; Pollution at alarming levels; Unemployment rate at 25 percent; Illegal weapons abound in the country; Public debt close to $100 billion; Bankruptcy threatens businesses; and Local currency in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe last page read: \u201cWake up before it is too late.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Daily Star\u2019s Joseph Haboush told AFP: \u201cWe wanted to deliver a message to politicians and officials about the dangerous level the situation has reached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIn October, Lebanon\u2019s most renowned newspaper, Annahar, protested at the deteriorating situation in the country, where contending parties had failed to form a government, and published 11 blank pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT:\u00a0Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri expressed optimism about the chances of putting an end to the political crisis that has paralyzed the Cabinet for more than five weeks. After meeting with President Michel Aoun in the presence of Lebanon\u2019s Security Chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, Hariri said: \u201cSolutions are near to fruition and I am&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40414","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\/40414","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=40414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}