Autumn Suspense in Lebanon III: Prime Minister’s Office on the Brink
... throughout this period of “presidential vacuum,” Hariri urged his colleagues to come to an agreed decision and put an end to the crisis. We can deduce the kind of decision that Hariri himself envisioned from the fact that his political opponents – Michel Aoun’s supporters – boycotted the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies dozens of times. That is, in Hariri’s opinion, a way out of the power vacuum had to be unequivocally acceptable to the patrons of the leader of the March 14 Alliance, i....