Nasrallah's Remarks Suggest He Ended Support for Bassil's Conditions

The “margin of obstruction” in the government formation process “has started to seriously get narrower” and the remaining obstacles can be resolved, sources informed on the file said.

Noting that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had “fully authorized Speaker Nabih Berri to find a quick solution” to the crisis in his latest remarks, the sources told the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper that Nasrallah’s statements carried a “password” urging Berri to “activate his initiative and risk his own security, even if he needed to visit the Baabda Palace.”

Nasrallah also “pledged to offer all the necessary assistance” to secure the success of Berri’s initiative through “lowering the level of support that had been granted to the governmental conditions of Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil,” the sources added.