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Lebanese Druze leader and Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party chairman Walid Jumblatt speaks to the press after a meeting with the French president at the Elysée Palace in Paris in this June 30, 2014, file photo. (AFP PHOTO/DOMINIQUE FAGET)

Jumblatt initiative to break Lebanon’s presidential deadlock fails

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 16, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—A proposal by the head of the Lebanese parliament’s Democratic Gathering bloc, Walid Jumblatt, to end Lebanon’s presidential deadlock failed on Tuesday. Jumblatt said he was willing to withdraw his party’s presidential candidate if...

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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)

Lebanese presidential vote rescheduled again

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 19, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese MPs failed for the seventh time on Wednesday to elect a new president, after members of the March 8 Alliance continued their boycott of parliamentary sessions to select a new head of state. The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih...

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File photo of senior members of the March 14 Alliance pose for a group photograph during a news conference. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Lebanese politicians to consider public-sector workers’ demands

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 9, 2014 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Lebanese politicians are preparing for a parliamentary session on Tuesday to consider demands by public-sector workers for better pay and conditions, despite continued wrangling among Lebanese parties over the failure to elect a new president....

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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center top, delivers a broadcast speech during a rally commemorating “Liberation Day,” which marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000, in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Sunday May 25, 2014. Hezbollah’s leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is warning that hardline foreign fighters in […]

Opinion: Lebanon’s Hijacked Presidency

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 5, 2014 | Opinion

In an atmosphere of illusions, hopes and the calculations of defeat and victory, the presidency of Lebanon remains vacant. The vacancy at the presidential palace can be attributed to a host of factors. First, there are Lebanese who still believe—whether wrongly or...

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Druze leader Walid Jumblatt. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Walid Jumblatt: There is no presidential vacuum

by Thair Abbas | May 16, 2014 | Interviews

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—In the midst of the Lebanese parliament’s struggle to select a successor to President Michel Suleiman, Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said that he did not expect a new president to be chosen anytime soon. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat,...