Two ministers resign from Lebanon's Cabinet

Lebanon's Kataeb Party leader Sami Gemayel announced Tuesday the resignation of his two ministers from the Cabinet, saying he no longer saw "the point of participating in a corrupt and lazy government."

"There is no reason for us to stay in this Cabinet. It was a temporary leadership (amid the presidential vacuum) and has turned into a Cabinet symbolizing failure and everything wrong in the country," Gemayel said during a televised news conference.

Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi and Economy Minister Alain Hakim are the second and third ministers to resign from the current government formed last year.

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi resigned in February over his own frustrations with the government.

Gemayel slammed the Cabinet and said it only cared about passing deals they could profit from "at the expense of the state's treasury."

"When we came into this Cabinet, we thought we would be in it for only a few months, and we were never afraid of confrontation," he said, adding that "they have been trying to box us in for a while now, however no one has been able to silence us, and we will never be silenced."

Kataeb has been at loggerheads with other factions over the trash issue, a controversial dam project as well as a security agency dispute. Endit