NNA - Outgoing Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, named Friday from Baabda Tamam Salam for new PM, and hoped that a "positive shock" would soon be on the way.


Mikati, following a meeting with President Michel Sleiman as part of the parliamentary deliberations, asserted that democracy was an integral part of political life.


"We must realize that we are at a short distance from parliamentary elections, and we hope for a change in political blood."


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