The Baath parliamentary bloc on Wednesday announced that it had decided to boycott the ongoing political consultations undertaken by President Michel Aoun at Baabda palace, urging the President to accept Prime Minister Saad Hariri's resignation and to venture into the formation of a new government.

"The Baath bloc announces its boycot of the consultations held by the President of the republic, and reiterates its position whereas it calls those keen on Lebanon to assume the historical responsibility to accept the resignation immediately, and to engage in binding parliamentary consultations that must lead to the designation of a national and trusted figure to form a government of confrontation and steadfastness, that will protect Lebanon and its Resistance, and consecrate its victories against the Zionist and terrorist enemies and their tools," a statement by the press office of the bloc's head MP Assem Qanso said

Source: NNA