Report: Salam agrees to naming Yassine Jaber for finance portfolio
Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam met with Hezbollah and Amal Movement envoys and he agreed to the nomination of ex-MP Yassine Jaber for the finance ministerial portfolio, Shiite Duo sources said.
“The meeting with Salam was fruitful regarding the five portfolios and the nomination mechanism,” the sources told Al-Jadeed TV.
Al-Jadeed added that Salam “asked Hezbollah to pick a health minister who is an AUB graduate.”
Free Patriotic Movement sources meanwhile told the TV network that until Friday evening, the negotiations over portfolios with the FPM was yet to reach an agreement on candidates.
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