Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri (NO TRANSCRIPTS) Hariri met with parliament speaker and opposition Amal party leader Nabih Berri, was reappointed as prime minister last week, days after resigning.
VOA: standard.2009.09.24
Already, senior figures such as NabihBerri, the speaker of parliament, have said they would like Mr Hariri to lead the government.
The other elements in the opposition coalition come from allies such as the mainstream Shia Amal movement, headed by parliamentary Speaker NabihBerri, and the Free Patriotic Movement of the Christian leader Michel Aoun, once a fierce opponent of Syria but now reconciled with Damascus and likely to do well in many Christian areas.