The new Minister of Interior and Municipalities, General Ahmad Hajjar, requested on Tuesday that the Director General of the Internal Security Forces (ISF), General Imad Osman, remove the congratulatory posters and banners dedicated to him from several streets across the country, as reported by the state-run National News Agency (NNA). This is a rare occurrence in a country where it has become customary to celebrate a personality this way.

Hajjar, who has served for 38 years within the ISF, emphasized that the priority is now on work and the recovery of Lebanon in all fields while expressing his "gratitude to all who have shown him genuine affection," the NNA wrote.

Hajjar, a Sunni minister part of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam's quota, succeeded Bassam Mawlawi, affiliated with the Sunni Future Movement party, in this sovereign portfolio, one of four in the government.