An episode on a new and unexpected duo: President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam.

Covering the dramatically shifting security climate that brought about rapid political change, Joseph Aoun's leadership and the consensus that ushered in his presidency, Nawaf Salam's clean slate and the majority vote that guaranteed his prime minister-designation, and freeing local governance from the Doha Agreement's forced national unity paralysis.

With Sarah Yassine, architect and political activist.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

2:45 Joseph Aoun

6:58 Nawaf Salam

10:33 Current climate

17:03 Clean outsider

22:11 Constant pressure

28:25 Majority coalition

32:58 Unlocking the stranglehold

38:05 Dismantling the ‘Blocking Third’

40:58 Freeing the Ministry of Finance

43:01 Continued violence in the South

48:20 Independent voters & the South

57:15 A different Hezbollah