Lebanon parliament fails to elect new president


Beirut, Sep 23 (IANS): Lebanon's parliament Tuesday failed to elect a new president for the 13th session due to lack of quorum.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri postponed the presidential election session to Oct 9, MENA news agency reported.

Former president Michel Sleiman's term ended four months ago, but parliamentary blocs have repeatedly failed to elect a new head of state.

Earlier, 12 sessions failed to break the four-month-long presidential deadlock because of lack of a quorum, raising fears of a prolonged vacancy in the country's top Christian post.

 

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Lebanon parliament fails to elect new president



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.