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Michel Aoun's presidency ends 29-month leadership vacuum in Lebanon
Source: CNN
Michel Aoun's presidency ends 29-month leadership vacuum in Lebanon
By Schams Elwazer and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 1638 GMT (0038 HKT) October 31, 2016
(CNN) - Lebanon's parliament ended the country's 29-month leadership stalemate Monday by electing a Hezbollah-backed former army general and disputed president who once considered Syria a bitter enemy.
Michel Aoun is slated to be sworn in as the country's president Monday, ending a political stalemate that had left the country without a head of state for more than two years.
"The President expressed his thanks to the Prime Minister and all ministers, and requested that the Cabinet [act] as a caretaker until the formation of a new Cabinet," Aoun said in a statement.
A Maronite Christian known as "The General," Aoun is a politically-divisive figure who is affiliated with Hezbollah and other members of the political coalition known as the March 8 Alliance, which ruled Lebanon between mid-2011 and early 2013.
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By Schams Elwazer and Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 1638 GMT (0038 HKT) October 31, 2016
(CNN) - Lebanon's parliament ended the country's 29-month leadership stalemate Monday by electing a Hezbollah-backed former army general and disputed president who once considered Syria a bitter enemy.
Michel Aoun is slated to be sworn in as the country's president Monday, ending a political stalemate that had left the country without a head of state for more than two years.
"The President expressed his thanks to the Prime Minister and all ministers, and requested that the Cabinet [act] as a caretaker until the formation of a new Cabinet," Aoun said in a statement.
A Maronite Christian known as "The General," Aoun is a politically-divisive figure who is affiliated with Hezbollah and other members of the political coalition known as the March 8 Alliance, which ruled Lebanon between mid-2011 and early 2013.
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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/31/middleeast/lebanon-michel-aoun-president/
