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Lebanon: Hezbollah Seeks to Contain Dispute with Bassil’s FPM

Hezbollah is seeking to mitigate the impact of the recent dispute with its Christian ally, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), by affirming its adherence to the memorandum of understanding signed in 2006 between the two sides. “We were, still are and will remain adherents to our allies, regardless of our…

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Lebanon’s FPM Torn Between Bassil’s Ambitions, Hezbollah’s Pressure

A number of lawmakers from Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) have acknowledged that the party is in “crisis” over the election of a new president of the republic. FPM MPs have submitted blank votes in eight electoral sessions. Tensions reached new heights during the ninth session amid disputes between the…

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Lebanon: Disputes Emerge Between FPM, Hezbollah

For the first time since the signing of the Mar Mkhayel Agreement in 2006, a dispute emerged between former President Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and Hezbollah. The conflict between the two sides was publicly announced in the media on Monday, following the participation of Hezbollah’s ministers in a…

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Explainer: Why Can’t Lebanon Elect a President?

Lebanon has been without a president for over a month, its legislators unable to agree on a new head of state. The impasse is holding up a range of initiatives, from putting into place structural reforms for an International Monetary Fund program to allowing the country’s state-owned television channel to…

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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

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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.

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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.

Reuters

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.

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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…

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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.

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