MP Boutros Harb considered Saturday that "the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri was a shock to the Lebanese and the world, whether in its circumstances or timing or place of announcement," highlighting the need to work on avoiding its dangerous repercussions.

In an issued statement following PM Hariri's resignation, Harb deemed that said resignation "has created an atmosphere of political tension as a result of the fall of the settlement-deal that allowed the formation of the government at the end of 2016, and a sharp vertical split in the country, foreshadowing a long government crisis."

He hoped that this crisis would not turn into a crisis of governance.

"The only positive thing about this resignation is that it blocked many suspicious deals and prevented the corrupt people from continuing to absorb the blood of the Lebanese, and prevented the Lebanese Republic from turning into a banana republic shared by the political mafias," Harb went on to indicate.

"The path of salvation remains in our adherence to our national and moral principles," he concluded

Source: NNA