Lebanese Justice Minister Marie Claude Najm has resigned, just six days since a deadly blast tore apart the Beirut port – By Gerald Gekara and agencies.
Najm said in a statement she had presented her resignation from the government, citing the catastrophic explosion at the port of Beirut as the main reason.
Najm said she was resigning “out of my conviction that staying in power in these conditions, without a fundamental change to the system, will not lead to the reform which we worked to achieve”.
She called on the rest of the government to resign, and said she had also pressed for early elections due to the scale of Lebanon’s crisis.
This comes a day after nine members of parliament and two ministers have resigned from their position in Lebanon, according to an Al Jazeera tally.
Manal Abdel Samad, the information minister, and Damianos Kattar, the environment minister, resigned their posts on Sunday as the government came under heavy pressure to dissolve.
The blast triggered city-wide protests with citizens calling for the resignation of all government officials.
This is after investigators pegged corruption and negligence as the cause of the apocalyptic blast, captured on video by several residents.
