Lebanon’s Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat and parliamentarian Nehme Tohme are visiting Saudi Arabia, the National News Agency reported.
The Druze leader is scheduled to meet with various high-ranking officials, reported Al-Joumhouria newspaper yesterday.
Sources monitoring the situation told the daily that the trip “would not have been possible had a breakthrough not been expected to be achieved during the visit.”
They did not elaborate on the nature of the breakthrough, but noted that the trip will take place after the MP met with former Premier Saad Hariri in France on Jan. 29.
Jumblat, who is a centrist, played a major role in deciding the fate of the majority alliance that makes up the current Cabinet.
The March 8 majority led by Hezbullah, backed by some of Jumblat’s 12-member National Struggle Front parliamentary bloc, brought Prime Minister Najib Mikati to the premiership after Hariri’s national unity Cabinet was toppled.
Jumblat to hold talks in Kingdom
Jumblat to hold talks in Kingdom
