Thursday 19 December 2019 - 11:01
Lebanon’s Hariri says no longer candidate for PM
ISWNews Analysis Group: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri announced no candidacy for the next prime ministerial post.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri announced no candidacy for the next prime ministerial post.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Lebanon PM Saad Hariri announced his resignation to the President of Lebanon.
Recent protests in Lebanon started due to increasing the taxes on messaging apps such as WhatsApp by government. This move by the government is like setting fire on the dry lodges of economic pressure on people, made them impatient and caused vast protests on the bad economic situation in recent years.
Undoubtedly the media’s account of Saad Hariri’s ‘forced’ resignation is not the whole story, but how true or untrue is it?
By Jeremy Salt
