Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 3

17-Jan-2011

Lebanon/EAST MEDITERRANEAN

Energy Minister Joins Lebanon Cabinet Exodus

Lebanon’s Minister of Energy and Water, Gebran Bassil, was one of 11 opposition ministers to resign after the unity government collapsed on 12 January due to a long running dispute with Prime Minister Saad Hariri over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Mr Basil, a member of the Christian Free Patriotic Movement that is close to Hizbollah, made the...