Lebanese President Michel Aoun congratulated on Saturday Joe Biden on winning the US presidential elections.
In a tweet, he voiced hope for a “return to balance in US-Lebanese relations.”
Biden was elected president a day after Lebanese former foreign and energy minister MP Gebran Bassil, Aoun’s son-in-law, was slapped by US sanctions for corruption.
A centrist who promises to bring calm to Washington after four turbulent years under President Donald Trump, Biden is the oldest man to win the presidency -- a position he twice sought unsuccessfully during his long political career, before being elected vice president to Barack Obama in 2008.
Overall turnout on Tuesday broke records with some 160 million people pouring out across the United States after a deeply polarizing campaign complicated by the resurgent Covid-19 pandemic.
