THREAD: Government of 20 ministers is formed. Adding two ministers (1 for Frangieh and 1 for Arslan) resolved the deadlock.
Ultimately: FPM-led bloc has 7 ministers (including Tashnag), Hezb 2, Amal 2, Marada 2, LDP 2.
4 named by Diab. Here's info about some of them.⬇️
Ultimately: FPM-led bloc has 7 ministers (including Tashnag), Hezb 2, Amal 2, Marada 2, LDP 2.
4 named by Diab. Here's info about some of them.⬇️
Interior minister Mohamad Fehmi is an army general. Had a high ranking post under former president Lahoud. Unconfirmed claims that he is fully loyal to the Assad regime and that a Syrian security adviser asked Hezballah to have him named. Plz lmk if it's true or not. 
Justice minister Marie Claude Najem is the niece of former minisyer Naji Boustani (Omar Karami government)
Minister of finance Ghazi Wazni is Berri's advisor. 🤮
Minister of education Tarek Majzoub and minister of telecommunication Talal Hawwat are both reportedly close to the pro-Syrian Sunni MPs (Karami and co). Both were counted as part of Diab's share.
Minister of energy Raymond Ghajar is one of Bassil's advisors. 🗑
Minister of environment and state ministry of administrative development is Damianos Kattar, who was named minister in Mikati's 2005 government which only lasted 3 months.
Abbas Mortada (part of Amal's share) is minister of agriculture and......culture(?)
One of the only rumored candidates who is actually pretty good is Abdel Halim Fadlallah (Hezballah). He was supposed to head ministry of industry, but seems like he's been replaced by Imad Hoballah. Still unclear why Hezballah opted to drop him. Anyone has info?
Unconfirmed claims on minister of public works Michel Najjar (Marada share): allegedly been banned from Balamand University for looting funds.
Raoul Nehme the minister of economy (FPM share) seems to be a shareholder with Jamil Sayed and Sehnaoui group in a banks in Cyprus.
Zeina Akar, minister of defense as part of FPM's share, is the wife of Jawad Adra who's known for stealing and dealing in historical artificats stolen from all over the region.
Hamad Hassan, minister of health from Hezballah's share, is a former head of Baalbak's municipality with a reputation of being particularly sectarian.
