{"id":53163,"date":"2019-12-04T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53163"},"modified":"2019-12-04T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T03:08:07","slug":"new-protests-in-lebanon-as-hariri-backs-businessman-khatib-for-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53163","title":{"rendered":"New Protests In Lebanon As Hariri Backs Businessman Khatib For PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 4 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; New protests erupted in Lebanon on Tuesday, following caretaker Prime Minister, Saad Hariri&#8217;s announcement, to support businessman, Samir Khatib, as the next prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Everybody is working to overcome the current difficulties, but there are still a few details that need to be tackled,&#8221; Hariri said, following his meeting with Progressive Socialist Party Leader, Walid Jumblatt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri also said he would only nominate experts, not politicians, for the new cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Hariri&#8217;s announcement to support Khatib, some Lebanese took to the streets to voice their anger, blocking roads in regions, including Beirut and Bekaa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters, some, who gathered outside Khatib&#8217;s house in Beirut, accused Khatib, the executive vice president of engineering firm Khatib &amp; Alami, of being involved in corruption, related to government projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri submitted his resignation on Oct 29, after 12 days of nationwide protests against his government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters demand a complete change of the political system, to eliminate corruption and provide basic services to citizens.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 4 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; New protests erupted in Lebanon on Tuesday, following caretaker Prime Minister, Saad Hariri&#8217;s announcement, to support businessman, Samir Khatib, as the next prime minister. &#8220;Everybody is working to overcome the current difficulties, but there are still a few details that need to be tackled,&#8221; Hariri said, following his meeting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53163"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}