{"id":6309,"date":"2019-01-30T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.5.12\/nnn\/?p=6309"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:33:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:33:20","slug":"lebanese-pm-designate-says-this-week-decisive-for-government-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6309","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese PM-Designate Says, This Week &#8220;Decisive&#8221; For Government Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>        <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan 30 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, said that, this week will be &#8220;decisive&#8221; for the government formation in Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This week will be decisive whether positively or negatively, and the situation will become clearer in the coming two days,&#8221; Hariri told reporters, following a meeting of his Future Movement&#8217;s political bloc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri did not specify what options he will opt for, if a government is not formed imminently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon has been struggling to form a government since Hariri was designated prime minister in May. The formation of a government has been facing various hurdles, mainly differences among parties over the representation in the new government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the government formation has entered its ninth month of deadlock, Hariri is apparently left with three options: form a new government, reactivate the caretaking government, or step aside.&#8211; NNN-NNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan 30 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, said that, this week will be &#8220;decisive&#8221; for the government formation in Lebanon. &#8220;This week will be decisive whether positively or negatively, and the situation will become clearer in the coming two days,&#8221; Hariri told reporters, following a meeting of his Future Movement&#8217;s political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309"}],"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=6309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}