The 12th parliamentary session to elect a Lebanese president ended in failure again on Wednesday 14 June. Neither Sleiman Frangié, grandson of a former president of the same name, close to Bashar al-Assad, supported by Hezbollah, nor his opponent, economist Jihad Azour, former finance minister and current regional director of the International Monetary Fund, exceeded 60 votes cast out of a total of 128 MPs. The Baabda Palace therefore remains vacant, seven months after the end of Michel Aoun's mandate on October 31, while Lebanon has also not had a full-fledged government since the legislative elections held in May 2022, and an unprecedented economic collapse continues that has halved Lebanon's GDP and caused the currency to depreciate by more than 95%.
The die was stacked even before the opening of the electoral session, all analysts and political actors knowing that it would not be conclusive. The Constitution...
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