Report: Berri to throw weight behind Franjieh's nomination in 2023

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called in front of his visitors for sidelining Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil in the presidential file and “moving to Plan B,” a media report said on Friday.

“Plan B is based on seriously promoting the presidential nomination of Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh with the beginning of the new year,” informed sources told ad-Diyar newspaper.

“He is trying to convince Hezbollah with the matter so that paralysis does not continue,” the sources added.

Berri had informed Bassil in their recent meeting that he was “not willing to launch discussions over a third candidate that Bassil is trying to promote as a settlement candidate” and that his stance is “coordinated with Hezbollah,” the sources went on to say.