Report: Jumblat 'disgusted' of presidential deadlock

Outgoing Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat is "disgusted" from the presidential impasse, a media report published Friday in al-Liwaa newspaper said.

The report said that Jubmlat has told his visitors that he is pessimistic and is not seeing any light at the end of the presidential tunnel.

The report added that Jumblat considered the nomination of former minister Jihad Azour as a maneuver, as he accused the leaders of the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement of not really wanting Azour.

Mired in a crippling economic crisis since 2019, Lebanon has been governed by a caretaker cabinet for more than a year and without a president for almost eight months.

No group has a clear majority in parliament and lawmakers, have failed 12 times to elect a new president, amid bitter divisions between Hezbollah and its opponents.

French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived in Beirut on Wednesday for talks with Lebanese leaders over the presidential crisis.

On Friday he met with Jumblat and his son Taymur who heads the Democratic Gathering bloc.