The Cabinet consisted of all party blocs, excluding the Free Patriotic Movement. It became interim following the end of the president’s mandate in November 2007. In 2008, following Hezbollah’s takeover of Beirut, Michel Sleiman was appointed the new president after the two blocs agreed on his nomination as part of the Doha Accord, while Siniora remained as prime minister until the elections of 2009.

The Cabinet was a National Unity Government, a coalition government of all (major) parties. It fell on 12 January 2011 after 11 March 8 Ministers resigned in response to the threat by Hezbollah to take action against the expected indictment of Hezbollah members by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri.

* In January 2011, Walid Jumblatt’s Progressive Socialist Party moves from the March 14 to the March 8 Alliance thereby providing the March 8 Alliance with the parliamental majority necessary to form a government.

When the newly assigned Prime Minister Najib Mikati tried to form a new cabinet, the 14 March Alliance refused to comply as they accused Mikati of being pro-Syrian. In June 2011, after five months of negotiations, Najib Mikati formed a new cabinet consisting only of March 8 Alliance Ministers.  In March 2013, this Cabinet fell after Mikati resigned and became the caretaker prime minister. In April 2013, Tammam Salam was assigned as prime minister designate with the assignment to form a new cabinet, which was finally formed in March 2014 as a National Unity Government. The term of Michel Sleiman ended in May 2014 and left Lebanon in a presidential void as lawmakers failed to elect a new president.