Tammam Salaam is Lebanon ‘s Designated PM

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, assigned Lebanese MP Tammam Salam to form the  new  Lebanese government.

Spokesman for the Information Office at the Baabda Palace said in a statement on Saturday : “After completing  parliamentary consultations on the nomination of Prime Minister-designate and consultation by President Suleiman with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and binding parliamentary consultations , President Suleiman summoned Parliamentarian Tammam and asked him to form a new government in Lebanon. “

For his part, Prime Minister-designate said in a statement from Baabda Palace: “I was commissioned to form  the government and accepted this assignment on the ground of binding consultations conducted by President Suleiman.”

He explained  he would seek to form a government of  national interest, and to work for all Lebanon , extending thanks to all Lebanese parliamentary blocs who entrusted their confidence in him

He called for the need to get Lebanon out of  political division and fragmentation , stemming from the need to consolidate national visions ,commitment to the Taif Accord and the Constitution.

T. Fateh