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On Thursday, the Lebanese parliament failed, for the seventh time, to elect a president for the republic, to succeed President Michel Aoun, whose term ended on October 31.
Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, adjourned the session after losing the quorum in the second session, and set a new session for next Thursday, December 1.
Counting of votes ended as follows: 50 white papers, 42 Michel Moawad, 8 New Lebanon, 6 Essam Khalifa, 2 Ziad Baroud, 1 Badri Daher and 1 canceled.
A few days ago, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati expressed his hope for the cooperation of members of the Lebanese Parliament to elect a new president for the country, marking a new stage of recovery and advancement, stressing that the government will carry on with the national and constitutional work required of it in the belief that independence is a daily struggle in all forms, born of conviction. From the human heart and the core of his conscience.
This came in a statement he made, on the occasion of Lebanon's 79th Independence Day, considering that independence is one of the important milestones in the history of a homeland built by the arms of its people a long time ago and protecting it from the storms that recur from time to time.
Mikati said: "This year's holiday comes with distress over an incomplete constitutional reality, and over a legitimate concern for the present and the future due to the worst multi-faceted crisis our country is going through," stressing that despite everything that is happening, the Lebanese will remain on their belief that their unity is sufficient to rescue the country from what it is suffering. With the help of his brothers and friends in the world, to restore health and stability to this country.
Source: agencies