Beirut: Lebanese President-elect Joseph Aoun is holding consultations with parliamentary blocs in preparation for naming a person who will be entrusted with the task of forming a new government. The binding parliamentary consultations according to the constitution come four days after Aoun was elected president.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, since the date of the consultations was set, political forces have circulated the names of a number of candidates for the position, including caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, MP Fouad Makhzoumi, and former ambassador Nawaf Salam, whose name has been circulated in the last hours. Other representatives have put forward the candidacy of Nawaf Salam, who currently heads the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He is a veteran diplomat who is respected in Lebanon and whose name is put forward in every parliamentary consultation.