Lebanon’s parliament trying again to pick a president, after 12 failed attempts over 2 years
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Lebanon’s parliament trying again to pick a president, after 12 failed attempts over 2 years

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament convened Thursday to make yet another effort to elect a president, filling a vacuum that’s lasted for more than two years. While 12 previous attempts have failed to choose a successor to former President Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022, there are indications that Thursday’s vote may produce a head of state. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small Christian party in northern Lebanon with close ties to former Syrian President Bashar Assad. As a sitting army commander, Joseph Aoun is technically barred from becoming president by Lebanon’s constitution.

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Lebanon's presidential frontrunner Joseph Aoun, respected army chief
10 hours, 37 minutes ago

Lebanon's presidential frontrunner Joseph Aoun, respected army chief

The Hindu  

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun, the frontrunner in Thursday's vote for president, is a political neophyte but is expected to benefit from his position as head of one of the country's most respected institutions. Aoun "has a reputation of personal integrity", said Karim Bitar, an international relations expert at Beirut's Saint-Joseph University. 'Relations with everyone' Mohanad Hage Ali, from the …

Lebanon’s Parliament will try to pick President after 12 failed attempts over two years
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14 hours, 13 minutes ago

Lebanon’s Parliament will try to pick President after 12 failed attempts over two years

The Hindu  

Lebanon’s parliament was set to make yet another effort to elect a President on Thursday, filling a vacuum that’s lasted for more than two years. While 12 previous attempts have failed to choose a successor to former President Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022, there are indications that Thursday’s vote may produce a head of state. Hezbollah previously …

Lebanon’s parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending two-year deadlock
20 hours, 57 minutes ago

Lebanon’s parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending two-year deadlock

LA Times  

Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun reviews the honor guard upon his arrival at the Lebanese parliament in Beirut to be sworn in on Thursday. Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous cease-fire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between …

Who is Joseph Aoun? US-backed Army chief elected Lebanon's president
20 hours, 57 minutes ago

Who is Joseph Aoun? US-backed Army chief elected Lebanon's president

India Today  

Joseph Aoun,60, has been elected as Lebanon’s head of state by the parliament, ending a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. Aoun, no relation to former president Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the …

Will Lebanon finally elect a president after a 2-year vacuum?
1 day, 4 hours ago

Will Lebanon finally elect a president after a 2-year vacuum?

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament is set to convene Thursday to attempt to elect a head of state for the 13th time during a more than 2-year-long presidential vacuum. Michael Young, a senior editor at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, said that the current election “has taken a long time simply because parliament, reflecting the reality …

Lebanon’s parliament renews army chief’s term in first session after ceasefire
1 month, 1 week ago

Lebanon’s parliament renews army chief’s term in first session after ceasefire

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament Thursday renewed the term of army chief Joseph Aoun, who is seen as a potential presidential candidate in next year’s vote. The parliament has seldom met since Israel’s war with Hezbollah began 14 months ago, and has not convened to try to elect a president since June 2023, leaving the country in a political gridlock. French …

Lebanon parliament to meet on January 9 to elect president
1 month, 1 week ago

Lebanon parliament to meet on January 9 to elect president

Deccan Chronicle  

Beriut: Lebanon's parliament will meet on January 9 to elect a new president, seeking to end more than two years without a head of state, official media reported Thursday, a day after an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire began. "Speaker Nabih Berri called a parliament session to elect a president of the republic on January 9," the official National News Agency reported. Lebanon …

Will the Lebanese parliament manage to elect a president today?
1 year, 6 months ago

Will the Lebanese parliament manage to elect a president today?

Al Jazeera  

Sleiman Frangieh and Jihad Azour competing for presidency, as the Lebanese Parliament convenes for the twelfth time in an attempt to elect a new leader. There are two main candidates expected to run on Wednesday to succeed former President Michel Aoun: Marada party leader Sleiman Frangieh and former regional director at the International Monetary Fund Jihad Azour. Lebanon’s complex confessional …

Lebanon’s parliament fails to elect president for 12th time
1 year, 6 months ago

Lebanon’s parliament fails to elect president for 12th time

Al Jazeera  

Quorum was broken after the bloc led by Hezbollah withdrew after the first round vote. Lebanon’s parliament has – for the 12th time – failed to elect a president and break a political deadlock that has gripped the country for months. Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said the Hezbollah alliance walked out just as it did during the …

Iran urges Lebanese sides to reach agreement over president
1 year, 8 months ago

Iran urges Lebanese sides to reach agreement over president

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday that Tehran wants Lebanon’s rivals to reach an agreement to elect a new president in the crisis-hit country that has been without a head of state since October. Hossein Amirabdollahian made his comments during his first visit to Lebanon since Iran and Saudi Arabia reached an agreement in China last month to re-establish …

Hezbollah says it backs Christian ally to become president
1 year, 10 months ago

Hezbollah says it backs Christian ally to become president

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah said Monday the group backs a former Cabinet minister and strong ally to become Lebanon’s next president. Hezbollah is believed to oppose the army chief’s bid for president because he enjoys backing by the U.S. Lebanon’s deeply divided parliament has failed to elect a president during 11 sessions held since the term …

EXPLAINER: Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?
2 years, 1 month ago

EXPLAINER: Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, its legislators unable to agree on a new head of state. In 2021, Saudi Arabia banned agricultural exports from Lebanon, nominally due to shipments being used to smuggle drugs, and later that year banned all Lebanese exports after a minister called Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen “absurd.” Experts …

Amid crisis, Hezbollah seeks an ally in the next Lebanese president
2 years, 1 month ago

Amid crisis, Hezbollah seeks an ally in the next Lebanese president

LA Times  

Hezbollah fighters appear at a rally marking the group’s Martyr’s Day in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh on Friday. The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Friday he wants the next Lebanese president to be a politician who won’t “betray” the Iran-backed faction and assailed the United States for what he described as an undeclared “siege” on his …

Lebanon's Aoun leaves presidential palace as political crisis deepens
2 years, 2 months ago

Lebanon's Aoun leaves presidential palace as political crisis deepens

The Hindu  

Lebanon's outgoing head of state, Michel Aoun, vacated the presidential palace on Sunday, cheered on by thousands of his loyal supporters, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor. Mr. Aoun also said he had signed a decree formalising the resignation of Najib Mikati's caretaker government, deepening a political crisis in a country where the economy has all …

Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens
2 years, 2 months ago

Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun left Lebanon’s presidential palace Sunday, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is likely to worsen its historic economic meltdown. As Aoun’s term ends, the country is being run by a caretaker government after Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati failed to form a new …

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun leaves office amid crisis
2 years, 2 months ago

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun leaves office amid crisis

Al Jazeera  

President Michel Aoun leaves office a day earlier than when his six-year mandate ends as parliament fails to agree on his successor. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has vacated the presidential palace with no successor in line to replace him as the divided country struggles to recover from a years-long financial crisis. Addressing his supporters outside the Baabda presidential palace in …

Lebanon Fails for Third Time to Elect President Amid Worst-ever Financial Crisis
2 years, 2 months ago

Lebanon Fails for Third Time to Elect President Amid Worst-ever Financial Crisis

News 18  

Lebanon’s parliament failed Thursday for a third time to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, stoking fears of a political vacuum after his mandate expires at the end of the month. Lawmaker Michel Moawad, son of former president Rene Moawad, emerged as a frontrunner when parliament first convened to vote on a new president last month, with lawmakers opposed …

Lebanon lawmakers fail to elect president for second time
2 years, 2 months ago

Lebanon lawmakers fail to elect president for second time

The Hindu  

Lebanon's parliament on Thursday failed for a second time to elect a successor to President Michel Aoun, with some lawmakers boycotting the vote meaning the quorum was not reached. Lebanon, grappling with its worst-ever financial crisis, is also in the throes of a political paralysis that has hampered attempts to form a new government, since the outgoing cabinet's mandate expired …

Lebanese lawmakers to convene to elect country’s president
2 years, 3 months ago

Lebanese lawmakers to convene to elect country’s president

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s parliament speaker on Tuesday summoned lawmakers for a session this week to elect the country’s next president, offering a glimmer of hope of a political step forward even as chaos roils this Mideast nation. Under Lebanon’s fragile sectarian power-sharing system, the country’s 128-member parliament votes for a president, who must be a Maronite Christian. The other announced …

Lebanon’s president calls for an end to government paralysis
3 years ago

Lebanon’s president calls for an end to government paralysis

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — Lebanon’s president called Monday for an end to an 11-week deadlock that has prevented the government from convening, further undermining state institutions in the country amid an economic meltdown. President Michel Aoun implicitly blamed his powerful ally Hezbollah for preventing the government from convening but didn’t name the Shiite group. During an evening televised speech, Aoun also listed …

Lebanon’s President Aoun calls for ‘urgent’ national dialogue
3 years ago

Lebanon’s President Aoun calls for ‘urgent’ national dialogue

Al Jazeera  

Michel Aoun calls the political paralysis in the government ‘deliberate and systematic’ amid unprecedented economic crisis. Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun has called for an “urgent” national dialogue between the country’s governing parties as he condemned months of political paralysis in the government. Last week, Aoun said Lebanon needs “six to seven years” to emerge from the crisis. …

Lebanon’s PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns as crisis escalates
3 years, 5 months ago

Lebanon’s PM-designate Saad Hariri resigns as crisis escalates

Al Jazeera  

Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down on Thursday after failing to form a government for over the past eight months. “Hariri rejected any amendments related to changes in ministries, their sectarian distribution, and the names associated with them,” the president’s office said in a statement. “I resigned in 2019 because I wanted a government of experts, …

Saad Hariri steps down as Lebanon’s prime minister-designate pushing country into more uncertainty
3 years, 5 months ago

Saad Hariri steps down as Lebanon’s prime minister-designate pushing country into more uncertainty

CNN  

Beirut, Lebanon CNN — Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has stepped down nearly nine months after he was tasked with forming the crisis-ridden country’s next government. “During the conversation we proposed that the president take more time to think about the proposal, and said that it looks like we’re not going to agree,” Hariri told reporters following the 20-minute meeting. …

Lebanon’s Aoun tells PM-designate Hariri to form government or go
3 years, 9 months ago

Lebanon’s Aoun tells PM-designate Hariri to form government or go

Al Jazeera  

President Michel Aoun tells PM-designate Saad Hariri either to step down or form a government as soon as possible to tackle the country’s economic woes. Lebanese President Michel Aoun has told Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to form a new cabinet immediately or else make way as soon as possible, amid growing anger over the country’s intensifying economic crisis. “If prime …

Lebanon president accepts gov’t resignation after Beirut blast
4 years, 4 months ago

Lebanon president accepts gov’t resignation after Beirut blast

Al Jazeera  

Michel Aoun asks PM Diab’s gov’t to stay in caretaker capacity as fury over explosion that devastated Beirut grows. Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith, reporting from Beirut, said the change is going to be challenging because Lebanon’s electoral system is set up “to protect the political elite in the country”. “Even an explosion as catastrophic as Tuesday’s might not be enough …

Explained | What is happening in Lebanon?
5 years, 2 months ago

Explained | What is happening in Lebanon?

The Hindu  

Story so far : Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri announced his resignation on October 29 following two weeks of street protests that brought the capital Beirut to a standstill and led to violence between rival political factions. Mr. Hariri, who failed to placate the protesters despite promises to reform the economy, said on Tuesday, October 29, that he had hit …

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