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Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustapha Adib quit on Saturday after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet, failing despite French pressure on sectarian leaders to rally together to deal with the worst crisis since a 1975-1990 civil war, Reuters reported.
Adib was picked on August 31 to form a cabinet.
He had tried to form a government of specialists in a nation where power is shared between Muslims and Christians and political loyalties tend to follow sectarian lines.
But his efforts ran into the sand over cabinet appointments, particularly the post of finance minister, who will have a crucial role in drawing up a program to lift Lebanon out of a deep economic crisis.
Adib said he was stepping down from “the task of forming the government” after meeting President Michel Aoun.