{"id":13650,"date":"2019-10-29T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=13650"},"modified":"2019-10-29T19:23:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T15:23:06","slug":"lebanons-prime-minister-resigns-after-weeks-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/10\/29\/lebanons-prime-minister-resigns-after-weeks-of-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon\u2019s prime minister resigns after weeks of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saad al-Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday said he is stepping down in response to almost two weeks of nationwide protests calling for his resignation.<br><br>Mr Hariri said he had \u201creached a dead end\u201d and it had become necessary to deliver \u201ca big shock to confront the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Hariri headed a fractious power-sharing government reflecting Lebanon\u2019s sectarian political system, which has been characterised by decision-making that has been paralysed by internal disputes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protests were triggered by government plans to impose a tax on WhatsApp calls but quickly morphed into a revolt demanding broader political change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo all those who take part in political life, I say our responsibility now is to protect Lebanon and prevent any conflagration from reaching it,\u201d he said. \u201cOur responsibility is to revive the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Hariri\u2019s resignation catapults the heavily-indebted country deeper into uncertainty and could mean there would be more drift until there is a government in place capable of addressing the nation\u2019s economic crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saad al-Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister on Tuesday said he is stepping down in response to almost two weeks of nationwide protests calling for his resignation.Mr Hariri said he had \u201creached a dead end\u201d and it had become necessary to deliver \u201ca big shock to confront the crisis.\u201d Mr Hariri headed a fractious power-sharing government &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13655,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13650\/revisions\/13655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}