It ended when former President Michel Aoun was elected. The president’s role in Lebanon is limited under the power-sharing system in which the president is always a Maronite Christian ...

The 61-year-old becomes Lebanon’s 14th president, having filled a presidential vacuum of more than two years left by his predecessor, Michel Aoun – who is not related to the new president.

Lebanon's parliament elected the former army commander president after a two-year vacancy for the head of state.

the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy. And the Lebanese Forces party gave him their endorsement only the ...

Without the Gulf countries' financial support, Lebanon would not be able to reconstruct its war-damaged areas. Fadi Karam, a deputy ... of its ally, former Army commander Michel Aoun, after ...

The Lebanese Parliament has failed 12 times to pick a new president since former president Michel Aoun left office on October 30, 2022. Michel Aoun, a Lebanese politician and former general ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild.

Joseph Aoun is the first to be picked since the departure of Michel Aoun in 2022. Lebanese lawmakers were unable from the first session on Jan. 9 to elect a new president. A second session was ...

Aoun, no relation to former President Michel Aoun, was widely seen as the preferred candidate of the United States and Saudi Arabia, whose assistance Lebanon will need as it seeks to rebuild. The ...