{"id":29154,"date":"2020-08-11T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecomnewsmed.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29154"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:11:58","slug":"lebanon-government-resigned-due-to-public-pressure","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/en\/2020\/08\/11\/lebanon-government-resigned-due-to-public-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: Government resigned due to public pressure"},"content":"\n  \n    \n      \nThe move follows public outrage over last week&#8217;s devastating explosion in the port of the capital Beirut.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nThe Director General of the Presidency, Antoine Choucair, told a press conference that President Aoun thanked Prime Minister Diab and the ministers of his government and &#8220;asked them to continue in office until the formation of the new government &#8220;.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nHealth Minister Hamad Hassan told reporters that all members of the Lebanese cabinet have tendered their resignations to the prime minister to pass them on to the president. Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm and Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni left the government earlier today, while Information Minister Manal Abdel-Samad and Environment Minister Damianos Kattar had as to them resigned on August 9.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nSix MPs also resigned from the 128-member parliament in protest against the devastating explosion that killed at least 163 people and injured 6,000 others, while nearly 300,000 were left homeless.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nCommunications Minister Talal Hawat, and Ghada Chreim, Minister for Displaced Persons, said at the meeting that the government&#8217;s resignation had become &#8220;inevitable&#8221;.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nA powerful explosion rocked the port of Beirut on August 4, after a neglected stock of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse caught fire.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nAmmonium nitrate is a chemical substance which is used in particular to make bombs, but which is especially commonly used in the manufacture of fertilizers. \n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nTerrorism was ruled out as the probable cause of the explosion.The explosion, which rocked central Beirut, destroying buildings miles away, came at a time when Lebanon was already facing a severe financial crisis and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nProtesters have taken to the streets for the past two days, staging violent anti-government protests and storming government buildings across the country, leading to clashes with law enforcement.\n\n    \n  \n\n\n  \n    \n      \nSource Anadolu Agency\n\n    \n  \n\n","author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[5808,5750,5759],"location":[5634,5628],"class_list":["post-29154","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-government","tag-news","tag-politics","location-beirut","location-lebanon"],"short_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/34yW5De","have_related_news":"done","chapo":"<div class=\"\">Lebanese President Michel Aoun accepted the resignation of the government on August 10 and charged outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab with the management of current affairs.<\/div>","media":{"src":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lebanon-calls-on-arab-countries-to-receive-all-possible-help.jpg","srcset":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lebanon-calls-on-arab-countries-to-receive-all-possible-help.jpg 550w","sizes":"550px","alt":"Lebanon calls on Arab countries to receive all possible help","width":550,"height":360,"ratio":0.62,"credit_photo":""},"media-news-header":{"src":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lebanon-calls-on-arab-countries-to-receive-all-possible-help.jpg","srcset":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/app\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lebanon-calls-on-arab-countries-to-receive-all-possible-help.jpg 1170w","sizes":"1170px","alt":"Lebanon calls on Arab countries to receive all possible help","width":1170,"height":658,"ratio":0.62,"credit_photo":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.9.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lebanon: Government resigned due to public pressure - Ecomnews Med<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The move follows public outrage over last week&#039;s devastating explosion in the port of the capital Beirut. 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