President Michel Aoun called Monday for the formation of a “balanced” government that would represent all the parties to break the monthslong stalemate, in what appeared to be the first public response to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s stalled draft Cabinet formula.
![The spending problem has paralyzed the work of the Cabinet and [state] institutions](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/getty.images/albawaba.images/najib_mikati.jpg?itok=FRV-1QW2 "The spending problem has paralyzed the work of the Cabinet and [state] institutions")
