Shafaq News/ Lebanese and Arab mediareported that Nawaf Salam, President of the International Court of Justice, hasinformed several Lebanese lawmakers of his readiness to assume the position ofLebanon's Prime Minister, if the parliamentary blocs adopt his nomination forthe role.
Mandatory parliamentaryconsultations will begin on Monday at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, whereparliamentary blocs will meet with the newly elected president Joesph Aoun andpresent their candidate for the premiership.
Several names are expected to emergeduring the consultations, convened by Aoun, including:
MP Fouad Makhzoumi, a Beirut-based legislator and businessman
MP Ibrahim Mneimneh, an opposition lawmaker from Beirut and a member of the 17 October Movement-supported parliamentary list
MP Ashraf Rifi, a former minister and opposition MP from Tripoli
Current caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati
Lebanese political circlesanticipate the emergence of additional candidates from various blocs andlawmakers during the consultations.
Joseph Aoun, the former armycommander, was elected President of Lebanon last Thursday, following over twoyears of a presidential vacuum and amidst severe political and economic crises.
This new government will be thefirst during his presidency, in which he emphasized in his inaugural speechthat the next prime minister should be "a partner, not an adversary."
Nawaf Salam, born in 1953, is aLebanese judge, diplomat, and academic. He served as Lebanon's Ambassador andPermanent Representative to the United Nations for ten years, representing thecountry at the UN Security Council.
In 2018, Salam was elected to theInternational Court of Justice and was appointed President of the court onFebruary 6, 2024, for a three-year term, following the term of US judge JoanDonoghue. Salam is the third Arab judge to hold this position since the court'sfounding in 1945, following Algerian judge Mohamed Bedjaoui (1994-1997) andSomali judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf (2018-2021).
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