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A ballot box sits on a table next to the national flag at the Lebanese Parliament in the capital Beirut on April 22, 2014 ahead of the country’s presidential election. (AFP Photo/STR)

Debate: Lebanon’s president will be chosen from abroad

by Mohamed Ali Muqalled | May 24, 2014 | Debate

There is a critical difference between a president representing his constituency and a president ruling in the name of his constituency. The former is a healthy system. The only place the president is elected with 100 percent of the vote is a totalitarian regime. In a...

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Lebanese members of parliament gather to elect a new president in downtown Beirut on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Joseph Eid, Pool)

Debate: Lebanon’s president will be chosen from within

by Ibrahim Bayram | May 24, 2014 | Debate

In the Lebanese political scene, a president who belongs to a particular political party is not, of course, a “consensus” president. This term, which a well-known part of the Lebanese political vernacular, indicates a president without affiliations to any of the three...

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March 14 official Fares Soueid (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Soueid: Hezbollah wants a political vacuum in Lebanon

by Layal Abu Rahal | May 21, 2014 | Interviews

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Although the end of Lebanese President Michel Suleiman’s term on May 25 is looming ever nearer, the country’s fractious political parties have been unable to agree on a successor. As on many other issues, Lebanon’s two main political movements,...

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Lebanese members of parliament gather to elect the new president in downtown Beirut on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Joseph Eid, Pool)

Lebanese lawmakers fail for fourth time to elect president

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Reuters—Lebanese lawmakers failed for a fourth time to choose a new head of state on Thursday and will try again in a week’s time, only three days before President Michel Suleiman’s term ends. If the next round on May 22 fails, many fear it will...

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Lebanese Member of Parliament Michel Aoun, right, seals the envelope in which he wrote his vote to elect new Lebanese president at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on April 23, 2014. (EPA/Joseph Eid/Pool)

Lebanese presidential deadlock continues

by Layal Abu Rahal | May 12, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese politicians remained at odds over the country’s next president on Sunday, as the end of incumbent Michel Suleiman’s term on May 25 approaches. Despite the wishes of all political parties to avoid a political vacuum, a leading political...