Lebanon government to be announced Friday, PM-designate tells local media

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BEIRUT, Sept 10 - A new Lebanese government will be announced on Friday, Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati was quoted as saying, after a year of political fighting over cabinet seats that has exacerbated the country's devastating economic collapse.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, a Sunni Muslim, told news outlet Lebanon 24 he was due to visit President Michel Aoun, the Maronite Christian head of state, later on Friday and the government would be announced in the afternoon.

Fuel shortages brought much of life to a standstill last month and triggered numerous security incidents, fuelling concern in the West about the country that was splintered by civil war from 1975-90.The failure to agree a cabinet has left Lebanon without any effective government as the country has sunk deeper into a crisis which the World Bank has described as one of the sharpest implosions of modern times.

Mikati is the third prime minister-designate to attempt to form the government since the government resigned over a year ago in the aftermath of the Beirut port blast amidst the worsening economic meltdown.

Aoun's political adversaries have accused him and his political party, the Free Patriotic Movement, of seeking effective veto power in the new government by demanding a third of the seats.

In his comments to Lebanon 24, Mikati said there was no blocking third in the government line-up.

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