Health Minister Wael Abou Faour announced Monday that Prime Minister Tammam Salam's government is on the brink of entering a “coma.”
“The government will enter a coma and it will only wake up to address the garbage crisis exclusively,” Abou Faour, who is close to Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat, told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
“No contacts can rescue the government from the state of paralysis it is heading into,” the minister noted.
Hoping the national dialogue sessions will “remain away from political disputes amid the paralysis of state institutions,” Abou Faour stressed the need to “keep communication ongoing through dialogue,” describing it as “the only bridge among the Lebanese.”
Tensions surged between al-Mustaqbal movement and Hizbullah over the weekend in light of a war of words between officials from the two parties.
Speculation was rife last week that the cabinet would convene on Tuesday in order to tackle the garbage crisis, but no session has been scheduled until the moment.
The government's work has been paralyzed in recent months amid a dispute with the Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun over its decision-making mechanism and the thorny issue of military and security appointments, which has prompted a boycott by the movement's ministers.
Aoun announced last week that his ministers would not attend a cabinet session aimed at tackling the garbage crisis even though he supports Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb's proposal to solve it.
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