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☆ Lebanon finally set to pick a president after two years of trying
  + stars: | 2025-01-09 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Lebanon’s parliament was set Thursday to make yet another effort to elect a president, filling a vacuum that’s lasted for more than two years. The leading candidate is Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun, no relation to the former president. 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. Lebanese army commander, General Joseph Aoun, center, during a visit to the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on Dec. 23. AFP - Getty ImagesAs a sitting army commander, Joseph Aoun is technically barred from becoming president by Lebanon’s constitution.
Persons: Michel Aoun, Joseph Aoun, Suleiman Frangieh, Bashar Assad, Frangieh, Aoun, General Joseph Aoun, Jihad, Elias al Organizations: Hezbollah, AFP, Getty, Central Asia Department, International Monetary Fund, Lebanon’s General Security, IMF Locations: Lebanese, United States, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Israel, Khiam, East
☆ Beirut 'neighbourhood watch' echoes troubled past
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Tom Perry Issam Abdallah Timour Azhari | Tom Perry | Issam Abdallah | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
But among critics, their appearance has evoked parallels with the civil war when the state collapsed, militias controlled the streets and Beirut split into cantons. Such criticisms are rejected by Gemayel, a lawmaker in the Kataeb Party whose father, Bashir, led the main Christian militia in the civil war until he was assassinated in 1982 after being elected president. Lebanon's sectarian parties disarmed at the end of the war, bar Hezbollah, which kept its arsenal to fight Israel. Their pervasive influence is never far from the surface and tensions are common in a country awash with guns. Supporters of different groups fought deadly clashes in Beirut as recently as last year.
☆ Explainer: What's at stake as Lebanon faces presidential vacuum?
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
What makes electing a president so difficult, what's at stake, and who are the candidates? In the event of a vacuum, presidential powers should pass to cabinet led by Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Najib Mikati. The Maronite community is more politically fractured than others in Lebanon, giving rise to many presidential hopefuls. Anti-Hezbollah lawmaker Michel Mouawad has won the most votes in four unsuccessful presidential election sessions so far, but not enough to win. But analysts and political sources say he would face opposition, notably from the Maronite politician Gebran Bassil, President Aoun's son-in-law and a presidential hopeful himself.
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