Lebanon Parliament Convenes to Elect New President on June 14

The Lebanese parliament ceased over four months of holding sessions to elect a new president for the country.

During the hiatus, the parties to the country were in crisis and fought politically and economically in painstaking negotiations and mutual accusations.

However, the silence of the past four months was interrupted by the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, by inviting the lawmakers to a session to elect a president for the republic on Wednesday noon, June 14, amid expectations that the presidential vacuum crisis that has extended since the end of Michel Aoun’s term ended on October 31 is approaching.

The Lebanese Parliament held its last session on January 19, after which the speaker stopped calling for new sessions, to allow politicians to agree on new candidates for the elections.

The 12th election session comes a day after the opposition and several independent deputies of the Change-making bloc announced, in a press conference, from the house of Representative Michel Moawad, the agreement to support the name of former minister Jihad Azour as a "non-provocative moderate candidate" for the presidency.