Aoun headed the country’s army since 2017 and was selected Thursday to succeed Michel Aoun, whose term ended in October 2022. The two are not related. The election came amid a fragile ceasefire ...

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Since October 2022, when Michel Aoun stepped down as president at the end of his six-year term, the Parliament had voted on a replacement 12 times without success. Under Lebanon’s sectarian ...

including the last head of state Michel Aoun, who is no relation. In an unusually political statement for an army commander, Aoun criticised ruling politicians over Lebanon's financial collapse in ...

One of the most influential Christian parties in the country, the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy.

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022. The vote came ...

Aoun was elected by the Lebanese parliament on Thursday, ending over two years of political vacuum since President Michel Aoun left office in October 2022.

In 2016, Hezbollah had forced the election of its ally, former Army commander Michel Aoun, after a 29-month vacuum in the presidency. On Thursday, Jospeh Aoun emerged as a leading candidate for ...

ALBAWABA - Lebanese MPs started to arrive at Nejmeh Square to hold a session to elect the 14th president of Lebanon. In the previous 13th sessions, Lebanese lawmakers were unable to settle on ...