With efforts to form a new government being set to move up a gear this week following Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s return from visits to Moscow and Riyadh, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party have reached a truce ending a fierce war of words over the Eid al-Fitr holiday that threatened to negatively affect the Cabinet formation process
![Former Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah [thedailystar.com]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/misc/102621_mainimg.jpg?itok=0ebNRcF2 "Former Finance Minister Mohammad Shatah [thedailystar.com]")
