New Lebanon Leader Begins Talks Over Next Cabinet
Lebanon's newly designated prime minister began his consultations on Saturday with parliamentary blocs to discuss the shape of the future government.
Hassan Diab
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Beirut (AP) -- Lebanon's new prime minister held consultations Saturday with parliamentary blocs in which they discussed the shape of the future government and said afterward that legislators all had one concern: To get the country out of its “strangling" economic crisis.
Hassan Diab, a university professor and former education minister, will have to steer Lebanon out of its worst economic and financial crisis in decades. He's also taking office against the backdrop of ongoing nationwide protests against the country's ruling elite.