By Prensa Latina,
Beirut : Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora was confirmed on Wednesday in his post, after a meeting between new President Michel Siniora and the legislative bloc’s leaders.
Siniora and head of the parliamentary majority Saad Hariri had been proposed for the post, which was defined after the meeting.
The opposition had expressed rejection of Sniora’s reelection, for considering him responsible for the political crisis this Arab nation had experienced for over a year, but it asserted that it would not oppose the president’s decision.
According to what the Lebanese Constitution establishes, appointment to prime minister post should be endorsed by the president, who designates the head of government in agreement with the Parliament.
In this Arab country, the cabinet head should be Sunni Muslim, the Parliament president should be Shiite, and the head of State should be Christian Maronite.
It will be Siniora’s duty to constitute the new national unity government that will lead Lebanon until the next presidential elections will be held a year from now.
Election of the new president and confirmation of the prime minister in his post are supposed to be the beginning of the end of the political crisis that had shaken Lebanon since 2005, causing the death of at least nine figures and six-month power gap, and put the nation on the verge of a civil war.