Anti-government protesters chant slogans in downtown Beirut, Lebanon after newly-assigned Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun
LEBANON’S Communists warned today that a technocratic stitch-up was no solution to the country’s deepening political crisis.
Newly appointed PM Hassan Diab said he planned to appoint a “government of experts and independents” because he himself was “an expert and an independent.” A Sunni, as the prime minister has to be under Lebanon’s existing sectarian constitution, he lacks support from Sunni parties in the parliament and has won office through backing from Shi’ite formations.
Protesters attempting to form roadblocks in Beirut in response to his appointment were stopped by the army .
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
Following the resignation of Nepali Prime Minister KP Oli amid mass youth-driven protests, different narratives have circulated which simplify and misrepresent the complexities and reality on the ground in Nepal at the roots of this crisis, argue VIJAY PRASHAD and ATUL CHANDRA
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