Lebanon's president Aoun pledges cabinet of technocrats in new government

• Protesters have called for a technocratic government and the end of a sectarian system where posts are allocated according to religious sects.

In a televised address Aoun pledged to move the state away from its sectarian-based political system to a civil state calling sectarianism a "destructive disease".

Protesters have called for a technocratic government and the end of a sectarian system where posts are allocated according to religious sects.