Berri sees new government in six months

Lebanon’s

parliament speaker Nabih Berri believes that even if Michel Aoun is elected president next week after a vacancy of more than two years forming a government will take from five to six months, he was quoted as saying in a newspaper yesterday.

Berri is one of Aoun’s main political opponents. While Aoun might not secure the two-thirds majority of members of parliament needed for election in a first round of voting, sources say he could probably win by a simple majority in a second round. (Reuters)