The National News Agency reported that Wild “He called for a session of the House of Representatives to be held to elect a President of the Republic on January 9 of next year” after more than two years of vacancy in this position due to the lack of consensus among the political forces around it.
Berri said at the beginning of the legislative session, which opened with a minute of silence for the souls of the martyrs, and after an intervention by Representative Melhem Khalaf: I had promised myself that immediately after the ceasefire, I would set a date for a session to elect the President of the Republic. I am now announcing that a session will be set for January 9.
Since the end of the former president’s term Michel Aoun At the end of October 2022, Parliament failed 12 times to elect a president, as no party has a clear majority in Parliament that would enable it to nominate its candidate, in light of an increasingly severe political division between Hezbollah and its allies on the one hand, and their opponents on the other.
A ceasefire was entered into Hezbollah and Israel Wednesday takes effect.
The caretaker Prime Minister expressed Najib Mikati In a speech on Wednesday, he expressed his hope that the truce would be “a new page in Lebanon (…) that would lead to the election of a president.”
Berri also called in a speech to “accelerate the process.”Election of the President of the RepublicTwo years after the position became vacant.
In his last speech before the ceasefire, Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem affirmed that the party would make an “effective contribution to electing the President of the Republic through the Parliament in the constitutional manner.”
Political custom in Lebanon is that the President of the Republic is from the Maronite sect, while the position of Prime Minister belongs to the Sunni sect, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives belongs to the Shiite sect.
The term of former President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, ended on October 31, 2022, and Lebanon entered the stage of presidential vacancy, and the Parliament was unable to elect a new president for the country.
