Lebanon’s government won parliament’s vote of confidence on Thursday, as the prime minister vowed that his cabinet would cooperate with a UN-backed court charging Hezbollah operatives in the 2005 murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri.
After the country’s pro-Western opposition walked out moments before the vote, Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s Hezbollah-dominated government secured 68 out of a possible 128 votes in parliament, where the Iranian-backed Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies hold a slight majority, “The govt confirms it will continue the path of the tribunal … and continue to cooperate in this regard as per the UN Security Council Resolution which set up the tribunal to see justice served,” Mikati said ahead of the vote.
