Diplomat Mustapha Adib is going to become the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
An influential group of former Lebanese prime ministers has picked little-known diplomat Mustapha Adib to head the country’s next governmen.
Fouad Siniora, speaking on behalf of the group which met on Sunday, said Adib should rapidly form a government capable of implementing long-overdue reforms and overseeing Beirut’s reconstruction following a massive explosion that killed at least 190 people and damaged large parts of the capital earlier this month.
On Monday morning, President Michel Aoun is due to hold binding consultations with MPs to go through the formal motions of picking the next prime minister, who must then form a government – a process which in the past has taken many months.❐
