Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel warned on Wednesday that 2014 could bring more crises for the country, already reeling from the fallout of the war in neighboring Syria and its own turbulent internal politics.
Speaking to Asharq al-Awsat in Paris, Charbel said that Lebanon faced serious dangers focused on five events in particular, the impact of which “will be difficult for Lebanon to escape.”
He listed the dangers as the start of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in January 2014, the Lebanese presidential election in six months’ time, forthcoming elections in Syria, the election of a mufti in Lebanon, and finally Lebanon’s own postponed parliamentary elections.