Lebanese Parliament Fails for Sixth Time in Electing New President

Today, Thursday, the Lebanese Parliament failed to elect a new president for the country for the sixth time in a row, because no candidate could obtain two-thirds of the votes of the deputies.

Today, the sixth parliamentary session began to elect a president in Lebanon, headed by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Berri said that MP Michel Moawad got 43 votes against 46 white papers and seven votes for Essam Khalifa, and the presidential candidate needs to obtain the votes of two-thirds of the deputies in the 128-member parliament in the first round of voting.

Five previous parliamentary sessions were held to elect a president, the last of which was on November 10, and they did not succeed in electing an iron president.

It is noteworthy that the term of the former President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, ended on the 31st of last month, and Lebanon entered the stage of the presidential vacuum.

Earlier, Pope Francis II, Head of the Catholic Church, called on politicians in Lebanon to set aside their interests to save the country mired in a deep economic crisis.