Saad al-Hariri designated Prime Minister of Lebanon one year after stepping down

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Sa al-Hariri, on October 22, was tasked with forming his fourth government. A Sunni Muslim politician, Harriri won parliament’s backing by a slight majority. However, 50-year-old, who returned exactly after a year, w faces t only a health crisis but crippling debt and near-war situation too.

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Hariri's dramatic return

Hariri’s dramatic return was enabled by votes of 65 MPs which included those from Shi’ite Amal party, Druze politician Walid Jumblatt’s party, Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party. Absentees, who totalled as 53 members, majorly came from former allies of Hariri who self-styled mselves as new opposition. Meanwhile,  Iran backed Hezbollah also showed support for Hariri but ded that it would seek to facilitate his appointment.

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In aftermath of his appointment, Hariri pledged a government of n-partisan specialists tasked with implementing ecomic, financial and ministrative reform. “I say to Lebanese who are suffering hardship to point of despair, I intend to keep my promise, to work on stopping collapse that threatens our ecomy, society and security,” Hariri said in a brief statement on October 22. 

Sunni leer Hariri's last coalition government was toppled almost exactly a year ago as protests gripped country, furious at Leban's ruling elite. However, situations have changed since n as country w faces its worst crisis since 1975-90 civil war. Hariri is w tasked with sailing country through a perennial war with an Israel, banking crisis, cash crunch, rise in poverty and crippling state debts.

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(With inputs from AP)