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EXPLAINER: Why can’t Lebanon elect a president?

Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, and its legislators since late September have been unable to vote for a new president

The Independent UK

Geagea: Dialogue with Hezbollah, its Allies Is a Waste of Time

Head of the Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea usually prefers to remain optimistic, in contrast to the dreariness in Lebanon that is grappling with an unprecedented economic crisis. The situation has also worsened with the country plunging in presidential vacuum with rival political forces failing to elect a successor to Michel…

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Lebanon MPs Again Fail to Elect President despite Economic Crisis

Lebanese lawmakers failed for a seventh time Thursday to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun, even though the vacancy is hampering efforts to rescue the stricken economy. Parliament is split between supporters of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah movement and its opponents, neither of whom have a clear majority.…

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Lebanon MPs again fail to elect president despite economic crisis

Beirut (AFP) - Lebanese lawmakers failed for a seventh time Thursday to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun, even though the vacancy is hampering efforts to rescue the stricken economy.

AFP

Lebanon: Parliament Fails for 6th Time to Elect a President

The Lebanese Parliament failed for the sixth time on Thursday to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun, whose term expired on October 31. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri chaired Thursday’s parliament meeting. Five legislators out of 128-member parliament did not attend. Legislators cast their paper ballots into a wooden…

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Seeking compromise candidate, Lebanese politician Bassil leaves door ajar for presidency bid

Senior Lebanese politician Gebran Bassil said on Thursday he was working to find a compromise candidate for the presidency who would be able to push through crucial reforms, but that he would run for the post himself if he deemed a chosen candidate a bad option.

Reuters

Analysis-Power vacuum adds to risks for crisis-hit Lebanon

Lebanon faces an indefinite government crisis that further complicates the path out of its financial meltdown, adding to risks of instability as hardship deepens and state institutions teeter on the brink of collapse.

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Lebanon: Berri Slams Slogan of ‘Strong President’

Lebanon’s Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the idea of the “strong president” that former President Michel Aoun had carried as a slogan for his tenure has “failed miserably.” During a meeting on Monday with a Press Syndicate delegation, headed by Awni Kaaki, Berri said that a strong president “is…

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Pope Appeals for Lebanon Leaders to Put Interests Aside

Pope Francis appealed Sunday for Lebanon’s politicians to put their personal interests aside and agree on a path to help the country emerge from years of economic meltdown and a new political vacuum. “Lebanon now is suffering,” Francis said when asked en route home from Bahrain if he might visit…

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Lebanon: Parliament Asks Govt to Continue in Caretaker Capacity amid Presidential Vacuum

The Lebanese Parliament asked caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to “move forward with his work”, in an indirect rejection of a letter addressed to him by President Michel Aoun one day before the end of his presidential term. In his letter on Monday, Aoun had signed a decree accepting the…

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Lebanon: Reducing Chances of Electing a President, Berri Abandons Dialogue

The chances for Lebanon to find consensus on a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term in office ended on Monday, have dropped after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri canceled a previous invitation for major political parties to meet and try to reach an agreement on a presidential candidate. The head of…

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Lebanon Saw Alarming Decline in Press Freedom under Aoun

Lebanon witnessed an alarming drop in the “world press freedom rating” under the rule of former President Michel Aoun, whose term ended on Monday. His six-year term witnessed more 801 violations against media and cultural freedoms, revealed a report by the SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom at the…

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Crisis-Hit Lebanon Faces Power Vacuum without President

Already mired in political and economic crises, Lebanon is now also without a president after Michel Aoun's mandate expired without a successor. Cheered on by thousands of supporters, Aoun left the presidential palace on Sunday, a day before his term officially ended. His six years at the helm were marred…

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Explainer-What happens now that Lebanon is without a president?

Lebanon entered an unprecedented government crisis on Tuesday, with no president, a caretaker cabinet with limited powers and a deeply fragmented parliament.

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Lebanon Requests Dropping Terrorist Label of Hezbollah in Arab Summit Closing Statement

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati arrived in Algiers on Monday to take part in the two-day Arab League summit that kicks off on Tuesday. The summit is being launched on the same day that Lebanon plunged in presidential vacuum with the parliament failing to elect a successor to President…

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Aoun Approves Lebanese Govt Resignation, Demands Mikati's Removal as PM-designate

Lebanese President Michel Aoun approved on Sunday the resignation of the caretaker government, fulfilling a warning he had made in recent days. Aoun had stirred debate when he said that the caretaker government would be deemed resigned in wake of the May parliamentary elections. Also on Sunday, Aoun demanded that…

AFP

Lebanon's political crisis deepens as Aoun vacates presidential palace

Baabda (Lebanon) (AFP) - Lebanon's outgoing head of state, Michel Aoun, left the presidential palace Sunday, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor, deepening the country's political crisis.

Irish Independent

Lebanon’s president quits at end of term without being replaced

President Michel Aoun left Lebanon’s presidential palace, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is likely to worsen its historic economic meltdown.

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The Independent UK

Lebanon president leaves with no replacement, crisis deepens

President Michel Aoun has left Lebanon’s presidential palace, marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement

AFP

Lebanon's Aoun leaves presidential palace as political crisis deepens

Baabda (Lebanon) (AFP) - Lebanon's outgoing head of state, Michel Aoun, vacated the presidential palace on Sunday, cheered on by thousands of his loyal supporters, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor.

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Lebanon President Approves Gov't Resignation, Leaves with No Replacement

Lebanese President Michel Aoun left Lebanon's presidential palace Sunday marking the end of his six-year term without a replacement, leaving the small nation in a political vacuum that is likely to worsen its historic economic meltdown. As Aoun’s term ends, the country is being run by a caretaker government after…

Al Jazeera

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun leaves office amid crisis

President Michel Aoun leaves office a day earlier than his mandate ends as parliament fails to agree on his successor.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Lebanon: Rai Accuses Officials of Creating Post-Aoun Political 'Vacuum'

Maronite Patriach Beshara al-Rai accused the Lebanese authorities of creating a political vacuum by leaving the presidency unfilled with outgoing president Michel Aoun's term ending on Monday. Al-Rai said in his Sunday sermon that officials had "left this supreme and essential presidency in a vacuum, either deliberately, or out of…

AFP

Lebanon's Aoun vacates presidential palace as power vacuum looms

Baabda (Lebanon) (AFP) - Michel Aoun was vacating Lebanon's presidential palace on Sunday, amid acclaim from his supporters, a day before his mandate expires without a designated successor, threatening a new power vacuum in the crisis-torn country.

Reuters

Aoun's presidency ends leaving power vacuum in crisis-hit Lebanon

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, left the presidential palace on Sunday with his term ending, leaving a void at the top of a failing state.

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