Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustapha Adib said Thursday he was extending efforts to strike a deal on an emergency cabinet line-up despite missing a French deadline.

“I am fully aware that we do not have the luxury of time,” he said in a brief statement after meeting President Michel Aoun.

French President Emmanuel Macron had given Lebanon‘s main political players a two-week deadline to agree on a line-up of experts whose job would be to address multiple crises.