Lebanese members of parliament elected on Monday MP General Michel Aoun, ending a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum. The head of Free Patriotic Movement was elected in a second round during a Parliamentary session. In the first round, a quorum of two-thirds majority of the 128-parliament was not secured. Aoun won 84 ...
MP Michel Aoun is to be elected as Lebanon’s 13th head of state in a parliamentary session on Monday, ending a two and a two-and-a-half-year power vacuum. Nearly 88 members of parliament are to elect the 81-year-old veteran Christian leader. Lebanon has been without a head of state since former ...