BEIRUT, Lebanese President Michal Aoun, on Thursday, designated former Prime Minister Najib Mikati to form the new government.

The Presidency Director-General, Antoine Choucair, announced that President Aoun, after consulting Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and briefing him on the results of binding parliamentary consultations, summoned Najib Mikati and assigned him to form a government.

Mikati was nominated premier for a fourth time after securing the support of 54 of parliament’s 128 lawmakers.

Source: Kuwait News Agency