The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah parliamentary bloc Mohammed Raad announced Thursday plans to nominate a person "with a history of national resistance" to head a new government, DPA reported.
Lebanon's government collapsed Wednesday after the Hezbollah bloc withdrew from a national unity government over tensions about a United Nations investigation into the 2005 assassination of former premier Rafid Hariri.
"The opposition is consulting with all parties and hopes to achieve solutions that would consolidate Lebanon against foreign interferences," Raad said. "We will name a personality with a national resistance biography against Israel and its allies."
The Shiite Muslim party has the right to nominate a candidate, but there is no guarantee that person will be chosen as premier.
Under the Lebanese constitution, the president has to start consultations with the various parliamentary blocs to name a new Muslim-Sunni premier. The constitution calls for the president to be a Christian, the premier a Sunni Muslim and the House Speaker a Muslim Shiite.
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