Why Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati never stood a chance

Aran News Saudi Arabia02 Nov, 2021News

LONDON/BEIRUT: When Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati formed a government in September, ending a 13-month-long political stalemate, a collective sigh of relief was heard across the land. But the writing was already on the wall. It did not take long for the moment of truth to arrive. Yet it was not the economic meltdown, the electricity crisis, the Beirut blast inquiry deadlock or the unfolding humanitarian disaster in the country that laid bare the Mikati government’s impotence, it was something entirely different.