Lebanon’s Premier Resigns After Dispute on Electoral Law
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Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a Hezbollah-backed billionaire, dissolved his two-year-old administration as spillover from Syria’s civil war threatens to further destabilize the Middle Eastern nation.
“I announce the resignation of the government,” the former telecommunications entrepreneur said in a televised speech late yesterday. “Maybe it’s the only way for Lebanon’s main political powers to take responsibility and unite to take Lebanon out of the unknown.”