Hariri for Premiership, Parliament Session June 25
Ongoing contacts focus quietly on electing a new parliament speaker and the shape of the next government now that it has become a caretaker Cabinet and with only one day left of Parliament”s four-year-term.
Consultations should pick up momentum following The return home of MP Saad Hariri, at the same time as Speaker Nabih Berri has reportedly left Beirut for a European country believed to be Greece for a few-day holiday.
Senior sources from Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc told the daily As Safir that Hariri is certainly to become Lebanon”s next prime minister.
He said consultations with Opposition leaders as well as with the Mustaqbal bloc would resume following Hariri”s return from a private visit to Saudi Arabia.
In light of these consultations, according to the source, "a picture should be composed" with regards to the speakership post and the shape of the new government.
As Safir quoted parliamentary sources as saying that eldest MP Abdel Latif al-Zein will likely set June 25 as the date for a Parliament meeting to elect a new Speaker.