Mustapha Adib appointed  as  Lebanon's new PrimeMinister

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Mustapha Adib has been chosen to form Lebanon's next government the former ambassador to Germany is promising change at a time of deep crisis. Mustapha Adib "We will choose a ministerial team with expertise and competency we'll also carry out quick reforms that will put the country on the path to recovery and end the dangerous financial economic and social bleeding." Mustapha Adib got the majority of votes during parliamentary consultations, the post is reserved for a Sunni muslim in the country's sectarian-based governing system, that is why support from former prime minister Saad Al-Hariri who heads the largest Sunni block was essential to maintain national unity factions from a divided political landscape came together before the arrival of french president Emmanuel Macron. 

Saad Al-Hariri "The country needs to embrace the initiative of president macron because the french president is working with the international community to lift Lebanon from underneath the rubble." Macro returns to Beirut less than a month after visiting the Lebanese capital two days after the devastating port explosion, he has become a main power broker in the political crisis leading efforts to persuade politicians to fight state corruption and push through reforms needed for an international monetary fund bailout plan. Lebanon needs billions of dollars to rebuild what was destroyed in the port blast and billions more to revive an economy that has been run to the ground. 

Adib unlike his predecessor Hassan Diab who resigned in the aftermath of the August 4 explosion has the support from the majority of political forces, but like Diab, Adib could be held hostage by a political establishment that has been reluctant to carry out state reforms that could threaten their interests, but this time they may have little choice the state is close to collapse and the international community says there won't be blank checks in the words of the new prime minister Lebanon doesn't have time and this may be its last opportunity to save itself.