His appointment follows two months of anti-government protests, but some fear the new prime minister will only 'deepen' Lebanon's political crisis.
Crisis-hit Lebanon's president says he is going to name academic and former minister Hassan Diab, backed by Shiite movement Hezbollah, as the country's new prime minister, ending nearly two months of political wrangling. and the worst economic crisis since Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun, left, meets with Lebanese newly-assigned Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, right.But demonstrators from all sects have protested every day since October 17 to demand the removal of the entire political leadership - seen as corrupt and incompetent - and its replacement with a technocratic government.
A power-sharing system enshrined after the end of the civil war means that the prime minister's position should be filled by a member of the Sunni Muslim community.
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