Najib Mikati, the billionaire businessman from Tripoli and current outgoing Prime Minister, secured enough votes to become Lebanon’s new PM-designate on Thursday – the fourth time he would head a government. Mikati received at least 50 of votes from Lebanon’s parliament. The Lebanese Forces, a Maronite Christian political party and former civil war militia, cast blank ballots but refused to nominate an alternative to Mikati for PM. Nawaf Salam, a former judge on the International Court of Justice, competed with Mikati for the PM spot, but did not receive enough votes for his nomination. Most o…