Lebanon’s Hariri says not candidate for own succession

Lebanon’s outgoing prime minister, Saad Hariri, announces ahead of consultations to form a new cabinet that he will not seek a new mandate.

“I announce I will not be a candidate to form the next government,” Hariri says in a statement issued on the eve of consultations that have been postponed twice already.

AFP

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