By Edward Haddad</p> <p>BEIRUT (AA) – After months of political wrangling, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, leader of Lebanon’s Future Movement (21 out of 128 seats in parliament), is expected to finally unveil his new cabinet lineup within days.</p> <p>It will be the second Lebanese government to be drawn up under President Michel Aoun.</p> <p>According to the terms of the 1989 Taif Accord, which ended Lebanon’s destructive civil war (1975-1989), cabinet portfolios are shared between the country’s main ethno-religious groupings, with six portfolios reserved for Sunnis, six for Shias, and three for Druze.</p> <p>Since May 6 parliamentary polls, however, the process has faced repeated delays amid mutual recriminations between Lebanon’s leading political forces and demands by certain parties for greater representation in the incoming government. </p> <p>Well-informed political sources tell Anadolu Agency that Hariri’s cabinet appointees will likely be as follows:</p> <p>Gebran Bassil, leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, a Christian party, will take the foreign affairs portfolio.</p> <p>Elias Abu Saab, an Orthodox Christian, will take the defense portfolio.</p> <p>Mohamed Makkawi of Hariri’s Future Movement (Sunni) will be appointed minister of the interior.</p> <p>Ali Hassan Khalil of the Amal movement (Shia) will be given the finance portfolio.</p> <p>Mohammed Shakir of the Future Movement will be appointed communications minister.</p> <p>Mustafa Alloush of the Future Movement will be appointed minister of displaced people’s affairs.</p> <p>Violette Khairallah Safadi of the Future Movement will be appointed minister of state.</p> <p>Adel Afyoni of the Future Movement will be given an as-yet-undetermined cabinet portfolio.</p> <p>Meanwhile, President Aoun, with the support of the Free Patriotic Movement, has nominated Pierre Raffoul for minister of state for presidential affairs; Saleh al-Gharib for minister of state; Salim Gritsati for justice minister; and Nada Bustani for energy and water minister.</p> <p>Two portfolios — those of information and economy — still remain up for grabs, said the sources, according to whom Owadis Kedidian will be appointed tourism minister.</p> <p>Further, Ghassan Hasbani of the Lebanese Forces Party (Christian) will be appointed deputy prime minister; May Chidiac will become culture minister; Kamil Abu Suleiman will be appointed labor minister; and Richard Kyumjian will be made minister of state.</p> <p>According to the same sources, Akram Shahib and Wael Abou Faour of the Druze Democratic Gathering will take the education and industry portfolios respectively.</p> <p>Lebanon’s influential Hezbollah group (Shia), meanwhile, will be represented in cabinet by Mohamed Fneish (minister of state for parliamentary affairs); Mahmoud Qamati (youth and sports minister); and Jamil Jabak (health minister).</p> <p>Youssef Fenianos of the Marada Movement (Christian) will be appointed minister of labor, the same sources said, while Jawad Adra (Sunni) will be made minister of state.