Lebanon Marks 73rd Independence Day
Local Editor
Lebanon celebrates Independence Day on Tuesday with several challenges facing the country, including lining-up a new cabinet after the recent election of President Michel Aoun which ended a two-year power vacuum at the post.
The country will mark 73 years of independence with an official ceremony that will be staged at Shafiq al-Wazzan Boulevard in Downtown Beirut.
President Aoun, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, Caretaker PM Tammam Salam and Speaker Nabih Berri will head the officials who will attend the ceremony marking the country's independence.
Both Prime Ministers, Hariri and Salam, will both be present at the ceremony after strenuous efforts to form a new cabinet before Independence Day failed.
After the election of ex-army chief Aoun on October 31, Hariri was designated to form a government but the formation is witnessing some delay amid wrangling over the distribution of ministerial portfolios.
Lebanese Independence Day commemorates the day the country got rid of the 23 years of governance by French Mandate that succeeded Ottoman rule.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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