Lebanon has named its envoy to Germany, Mustafa Adib, as its new Prime Minister on Monday to help steer the countries current socio-political and economic crisis downturn which was more compounded by the Beirut seaport explosion. 
The Presidency made the announcement of appointing the little-known diplomat Mustafa Adib at his arrival at the Palace in Baabda near Beirut to meet the President Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
Adib has been Lebanon’s ambassador to Germany since 2013 and his name only emerged on Sunday to replace Hassan Diab, whose government resigned in the aftermath of the deadly August 4 blast at Beirut port.
The 48-year-old was born in the northern city of Tripoli and is a Sunni Muslim, making him eligible to become prime minister under Lebanon’s sectarian-based power-sharing system.
His biography on the Berlin embassy website presents him as an academic who holds a PhD in political science.
From 2000 to 2004, he served as an advisor to Najib Mikati, a billionaire and former prime minister who backed his nomination on Monday.
In 2011, then-prime minister Mikati appointed Adib as his chief of cabinet.
Former premiers Saad Hariri and Fouad Siniora also threw their weight behind Adib after two other candidates were reportedly rejected by the dominant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah and its political allies.
Mustafa Adib’s appointment came on the day French President Emmanuel Macron was due to arrive for another landmark visit. 
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