After the appointment of a new prime minister, protests resumed in Beirut

After the appointment of a 60-year-old technocrat Hassan Diab, the prime minister of Lebanon, caused a new wave of demonstrations in Beirut. Activists of the protest movement carry out a rally in front of the house of the Sunni politician in the fashionable quarter of Telelet-Hayut in the Muslim part of the city. They require the dissolution of parliament and the holding of early elections, TASS reports.

Protesters block the streets in the quarters of Verden, Kola, Tarik-El-Jedida, Kaskas, as well as in the suburbs of Halda. Crowds of demonstrators flow to the center of the capital to the building of the Chamber of Deputies and the government palace, which are intensively guarded by military personnel and the police.

The leader of Al-Mustakbal, the former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who refused to nominate the head of the office, called on his supporters to refrain from participating in street promotions and overlapping the auto tracks. Nevertheless, in a number of places between law enforcement officers and demonstrators, skirmishes occurred.

On Thursday, President of Lebanon Michel Auun instructed to form a new government on the independent policy of Hassan Diab after consultations with parliamentary factions at the Baabda Palace. The candidacy of Diab, who held the post of Minister of Education in 2011-2014, was supported by 69 out of 128 deputies.

The new prime minister promised in his first speech to develop a "realistic plan for the rescue of Lebanon." "I share the requirements of the popular movement, which gave the right direction of political life," Diab said.