Lebanon army chief elected president after 2 years with no head of state
Joseph Aoun, 61, Lebanon’s army commander, takes the role of president after over two years of the seat being empty and 13 attempts to vote in a leader.
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Lebanon’s parliament chooses army chief as president, ending two-year deadlock
Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than ...
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'A new era for Lebanon': Joseph Aoun is elected president after 2-year political deadlock
After two years of political deadlock, Lebanon elected Gen Joseph Aoun, commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as its new ...
Lebanese parliament elects military commander Aoun as president
The Lebanese parliament elected armed forces commander Joseph Aoun as the country's new president on Thursday in a second ...
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Lebanon, by Electing Its Army Chief as President, May Finally Be Emerging From Under the Yoke of Iran
The new president, Joseph Aoun, is a favorite of America, France, and Saudi Arabia. He even gets a cautious endorsement from ...
Lebanon has new president: armed forces commander
General Joseph Aoun was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States, which funds, trains, and arms the ...
Bernie Sanders receives vote in Lebanese parliamentary election for president
Bernie Sanders is ineligible to be Lebanon's president, as he is neither a Lebanese citizen nor a Maronite Christian — the ...
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Lebanon ends two-year void with military chief Aoun as president
By Josiane Hajj Moussa for bnm Beirut bureau After more than two years of presidential vacancy, the Lebanese Parliament has ...
Los Angeles Times10d
Lebanon’s parliament elects army commander Joseph Aoun as president, ending two-year deadlock
It ended when Michel Aoun was elected. In Lebanon, the head of state has a limited role under the power-sharing system in ...