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Beirut, regional players want Lebanon stable: Pundit

Friday, 01 February 2019 9:07 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 01 February 2019 9:12 AM ]

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (C) addresses the media after announcing the new cabinet during a press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, on January 31, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

The political establishment in Beirut and also players in the Middle East region are willing to see a politically stabilized Lebanon after nine-month stalemate on the political stage, says a commentator.

Lebanon's presidency has announced the formation of a new national unity government, after rival political factions managed to hammer out their differences over the government line-up.

Naseer al-Omari, writer and political commentator, told Press TV on Friday that he does not “think that there is a lot of external interest to destabilize Lebanon by regional players” and “the government [in Beirut] has to restore that sense of stability. The world needs to see that Lebanon is stable.”

Politicians and ordinary people seem “to be genuine,” because “everybody has incentive to make the government work,” Omari argued.

The new government -- headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri -- includes 30 ministers from most Lebanese political factions, which have been in talks after the country held in May 2018 its first parliamentary elections in nine years.

Since the May 2015 election, the last Hariri government, which has been appointed in 2016, has been in office in a caretaker capacity.