{"id":55726,"date":"2019-12-21T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55726"},"modified":"2019-12-21T11:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T03:02:59","slug":"lebanons-new-pm-plans-a-government-of-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55726","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s New PM Plans A Government Of Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 21 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s newly-appointed Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, vowed to form a government of experts, to deal with the current economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I totally understand the demands of the protesters. I only ask them to give us some time, to form an exceptional government capable of dealing with urgent matters in the country,&#8221; Diab was cited as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will all work as a team, regardless of our political affiliations,&#8221; he said, the government will be formed within a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diab said, he refuses to be labelled as representing Hezbollah or any other political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This government will represent all of Lebanon and we will do our best to hire neutral experts as ministers.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Diab won the majority of parliamentary votes, to become the new prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diab succeeded in securing 69 out of 128 parliamentary votes, to form a new government, which will end 50 days of political stalemate.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 21 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s newly-appointed Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, vowed to form a government of experts, to deal with the current economic and political challenges. &#8220;I totally understand the demands of the protesters. I only ask them to give us some time, to form an exceptional government capable of dealing with urgent matters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55726"}],"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=55726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}