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Who are Lebanon's top presidential candidates for this week's crunch vote?
Lebanon's parliament is set to convene on Thursday to elect a president and fill the vacant head of state position but major parties remain divided over the choice of candidate.
The international community, including the US and Saudi Arabia, is calling for the swift election of a president to uphold the fragile ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, which came into effect on 27 November and ended a large-scale conflict that devastated many parts of Lebanon.
International funding for reconstruction is also being tied to resolving the political deadlock via the election of a head of state, suggesting the possibility that Lebanon might finally have a head of state after a 27 month wait.
The presidency has remained vacant since Michel Aoun's term expired in October 2022, highlighting the severe political paralysis that has exacerbated the country's worst financial crisis in recent years.
Since Aoun's term ended, there have been 12 failed sessions to elect a new president with no consensus emerging despite ongoing domestic and international efforts to break the deadlock.
Under Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, the presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian and the rules require
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Baroud Ends his Duties as Caretaker Minister: An Acting Minister Can Carry Out this Mission
by Naharnet Newsdesk over 13 years
Caretaker Interior Minister Ziad Baroud announced on Thursday that he will no longer carry out his duties as a caretaker minister.
He said during a press conference in response to this morning’s incidents at one of the Telecommunications Ministry buildings in the Adlieh district: “It appears to me that reason in Lebanon has taken a holiday and the law has become a point of view.”
“I have come to realize in the past few days that the problem in Lebanon is much greater than it appears to be,” he stated.
“Because I don’t want to act as a false witness or a caretaker minister whose role is limited to signing the ministry’s mail, which something an acting minister can do, and because I refuse to violate the constitution … I have liberated myself of these tasks,” he stressed.
“I say to the Lebanese that taking them hostage is no longer acceptable,” Baroud said.
The minister asserted that he has long refused to take sides in the ongoing political divide in Lebanon, adding that the political camp that caretaker Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas is affiliated with has not spared him its criticism, while he is not disputed with the other politi
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On 26 Might 2011, Baroud resigned flight office chimp minister reminisce interior accept municipalities coach in Saad Hariri’s government abaft an inter-party conflict mature between picture Internal Reassurance Forces at an earlier time the Priesthood of Telecommunications in Lebanon.
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