BEIRUT, 18 March, 2021 (TON): In a televised address on Wednesday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun urged the PM-designate Saad Hariri to visit the presidential palace to form a new cabinet immediately or if unable make way for someone else.

In a statement, Aoun said, “If Prime Minister-designate Hariri finds himself unable to form a government, he should make way for those who are.”

“My call is determined and truthful to the prime minister-designate to choose immediately one of the two choices, as silence is not an option after today,” he added.

“There is no use in all positions and blame-shifting if the country collapses and the people become prisoners of despair and frustration, there is no escape for them but anger. Everything subsides in front of the people's suffering, which has reached levels that they cannot bear,” he said while accusing him of blocking the process to form a new government.

As Aoun and Hariri had been fighting over the new government formation since his nomination in October, Hariri replied to Aoun’s comments saying, “After many weeks of introducing an integrated lineup to a non-partisan specialist government capable of implementing the reforms required to stop the collapse and start the reconstruction of what was destroyed by the port explosion in Beirut, I am awaiting a call from the president to discuss the proposed lineup.”

He said he visited the president 16 times since being assigned the task of forming a new government and would be honored to visit Aoun for the 17th time, when his schedule permits, to discuss the government formation.

However, as the country is utterly facing deadlock over the political situation as the new government has not yet set up since premier Hassan Diab’s resignation on 4 August last year, moreover, protests are taking place as recently, protesters tried to storm the economy ministry building in Beirut over the currency hitting a new bow, Lebanon seeks for stability in the country in the hope to save Lebanon.