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Parliament Holds 11th Election for New President


Thu 19 Jan 2023 | 01:16 PM
Ahmed Moamar

The Lebanese Parliament will hold its eleventh session on Thursday morning to elect a new president for the country, to succeed former President Michel Aoun, whose term ended on the 31st of last October, after 6 years in power.

This came at the invitation of the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, to hold a session dedicated to electing a new president for the country for the eleventh time since the start of the presidential vacuum.

Lebanon has been living for more than 80 days in a presidential vacuum due to the absence of the necessary consensus to elect a new president for the country within the House of Representatives (HoR throughout 10 sessions held from last September 29 to last December 15, and the elections did not result in any of the presidential candidates obtaining the necessary quorum to win.

The estimate is 86 votes out of 128 deputies in the HoR in the first round of the election, while no second round of voting was held in any of the sessions, in which winning requires only 65 votes.