Lebanon will sink like the Titanic if it fails to form a government, the speaker of parliament said on Monday as he opened a session to approve emergency funds to literally keep the lights on for two more months.
"The whole country is in danger, the whole country is the Titanic," Nabih Berri said. "It's time we all woke up because in the end, if the ship sinks, there'll be no one left."
Lebanon is in the throes of a financial collapse rooted in decades of graft and a crushing mountain of debt, in the country's worst crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war.