Mikati attends a news conference at the opening session of the Syrian Donors Conference in Kuwait City in January 2014. (Credit: Stephanie McGehee/Reuters)
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Monday he would not seek re-election in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15.
The statement, made in a TV address, throws Sunni politics in Lebanon into deeper disarray. It follows an announcement by ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri in January that he would withdraw from political life and that his Future Movement, which now has some 20 members of Parliament, would not field candidates.
Mikati, who represents Tripoli for the Azm Movement in Parliament, was first elected as a MP in 2000. He was re-elected in 2009 and 2018.
BEIRUT — Lebanese Prime Minister Najib
Mikati said on Monday he would not seek re-election in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15.
The statement, made in a TV address, throws Sunni politics
in Lebanon into deeper disarray. It follows an announcement by
ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri in January that he would withdraw
from political life and that his...
Mikati said on Monday he would not seek re-election in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15.
The statement, made in a TV address, throws Sunni politics
in Lebanon into deeper disarray. It follows an announcement by
ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri in January that he would withdraw
from political life and that his...