Autumn Suspense in Lebanon III: Prime Minister’s Office on the Brink

... time. For the third year running, autumn has been a time of surprises for the Lebanese people courtesy of their Prime Minister, Saad Hariri. Never one to hide his close ties to Saudi Arabia, Hariri has continually acted as the chief Lebanese proponent of ... ... the crisis. We can deduce the kind of decision that Hariri himself envisioned from the fact that his political opponents – Michel Aoun’s supporters – boycotted the sessions of the Chamber of Deputies dozens of times. That is, in Hariri’s opinion,...