Lebanese PM Diab resigns over Beirut blast

Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab submitted on Monday, the resignation of his government to President Michel Aoun, noting that the Beirut blast was the result of rampant corruption.

Diab said that “the system of corruption is greater than the state and we cannot get rid of it, and one of the examples of corruption is the blast of Beirut.”

“It cannot be described, but some live in another time, and some are only interested in scoring popular election points.” he said, adding:  “They did not read well the October 17 revolution, and that revolution was against them and they continued in their calculations and thought that they could dilute the Lebanese demands for change.”

The resigned prime minister had declared after the end of a cabinet meeting (comprising 20 ministers, including Diab), in the “Governmental Serail” in the capital Beirut, that “the government will resign,” noting that “the decision to resign came to assume responsibility.”