Less than a month after his appointment as Prime Minister of Lebanon, Moustapha Adib resigned on September 26, 2020, noting his inability to form the credible government of technocrats intended to pull the country out of its financial collapse.
The Shiite tandem, formed of the allied parties Hezbollah and Amal, claimed to appoint the Minister of Finance, in order to protect the politico-financial caste having governed since the end of the civil war, and in order to maintain the links of the financial center of Beirut with the Iranian authorities.
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We had seen the diplomat Adib's authority rapidly decline, when a great godfather of the Sunni community, Saad Hariri, former prime minister of the failed system, began to comment all the time on the political consultations in progress, in place and place of the designated prime minister.
Since its independence in 1943, Lebanon, a denominational democracy, has a constitutional custom which reserves the position of head of government
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