Libanon

[Schneemann]

Lebanon's Hariri steps aside from PM role

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- The man charged with forming a government in Lebanon said Thursday he would not do so after the opposition rejected his proposed Cabinet.

Saad Hariri, the head of the pro-Western "March 14 coalition," declared Thursday he was stepping down as prime minister-designate, a role he got after his party won the largest share of the vote in elections in June. He presented a slate of proposed ministers earlier in the week, but Hezbollah and the group led by Maronite Christian former general Michel Aoun immediately rejected it.

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