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Since last weekend, the political side that nominated Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam has been pressing him to announce the cabinet that he sees fit, as long as it is made up of politically unaffiliated figures and technocrats who will not be running in the upcoming parliamentary elections, whose fate is now uncertain.
A key March 14 figure told Al-Monitor, “We support Prime Minister-designate Salam in his mission and we are not burdening him with conditions. We want him to succeed because his success is our success. But we will not back down on what we agreed and demanded of him [forming a non-political government]. We do not want him to make concessions, either. He is not planning to do so, anyway.”
