Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel called on Monday from Bkirki on the rival parties to hold the Presidential elections on time and for the swift formation of a new cabinet.
“The situation in the country is very dangerous and it can't go on. It's as if the leaders are incapable of confronting the impending challenges,” Gemayel told reporters after talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.
He urged officials to form the cabinet swiftly without any delay.
“It's time, despite the conditions and the counter-conditions, we should form a cabinet and agree on the common points that gather us,” Gemayel said.
Endeavors are ongoing to end the cabinet deadlock as Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam continuously said that conditions and counter-conditions set by the rival sides have brought his efforts to form a cabinet to a stalemate.
Since his appointment to form a cabinet in April, Salam has been seeking the formation of a 24-member cabinet in which the March 8, March 14 and centrists camps would each get eight ministers.
“We have called on Salam to overcome complications such as the distribution of portfolios based as a cabinet can't carry out its tasks without consensus,” the Christian leader said.