Nontempered A-packets ofG2: Liftings from [inline-graphic xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="01i"/]

We give a construction of a family of nontempered (local and global) Arthur packets of the exceptional group G₂. One particular local packet contains a reducible representation. Using a Rankin-Selberg integral, we show that the subspace of the discrete spectrum associated to each packet is a full near equivalence class and this implies the Arthur multiplicity formula for these packets.