Lebanon's parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long ...
Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese Army, now holds the presidency, following the terms of his predecessors: Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman, and Michel Aoun. This came after the Lebanese ...
(Reuters/representative) While 12 previous attempts have failed to choose a successor to former President Michel Aoun ... backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh, the leader of a small ...
Aoun is also the fourth army commander to hold this position, as Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun preceded him. This came after Lebanese MPs voted today, Thursday, in the second round ...
The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former president Michel Aoun — no relation to the army ... war with Israel — previously backed another candidate, Suleiman ...
Three other former army chiefs – Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun – have served as president. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said the constitution would have to be changed for Mr Aoun ...
Lebanon’s parliament has elected army chief Joseph Aoun as President – finally giving the country a head of state after more than two years. Aoun, who had support from both the US and Saudi ...
Three other former army chiefs - Emile Lahoud, Michel Suleiman and Michel Aoun - have served as president. Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said the constitution would need to be amended in ...
However, his supporters point to the 2008 election of Gen. Michel Suleiman, who was also army commander at the time, as a precedent. They argue the reasons given for Suleiman’s election should apply ...
The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. Hezbollah previously backed another candidate, Suleiman Frangieh ...
The U.S.-backed army chief was voted president after two rounds of voting amid verbal clashes with Lebanese lawmakers shouting at each other following 12 previous attempts over the past two years to ...