Presidential impasse: New proposal receives backing of foreign powers

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Lebanon broke its own record as the country clocked 465 days without a president on Tuesday.
Lebanon broke its own record as the country clocked 465 days without a president on Tuesday.
A new proposal aimed at ending the presidential impasse is being discussed and has reportedly received the backing of a number of influential foreign powers, the An Nahar newspaper reported on Friday.

According to the daily the proposal calls for the election of one of the current presidential candidates for a two-year term. The daily did not name the candidate , but there are currently 3 candidates:
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea. He was the first to announce his candidacy and is supported by March 14 alliance
MP Henri Helou: PSP leader Walid Jumblatt’s candidate, proposed as a consensus candidate
MP Michel Aoun: Hezbollah’s officially declared candidate and is reportedly supported by March 8 alliance

During this 2 year period , a new parliamentary electoral law would be approved and the polls would then be held in order to reshuffle state institutions, An Nahar added.

The plan has received the support of Russia, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, An Nahar said.

Moscow has reportedly pledged to carry out talks with Tehran and Damascus, who will both prepare the conditions among their Lebanese allies to support the plan to elect a new president, it said.

Riyadh will meanwhile carry out contacts with Arab and international powers to garner their support, explained An Nahar.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblatt reportedly held talks on Wednesday with former prime minister and Future movement leader MP Saad Hariri in Riyadh Saudi Arabia to discuss this same issue , al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Friday.

The gatherers agreed however that the initiative “needs more time” to be adopted in order to garner more support for it, said al-Joumhouria, without elaborating on the issue.

The Lebanese parliament failed again on September 29 th and for the 29th time in a row to elect a president to replace Michel Suleiman whose term ended on May 25 last year.

As in the past sessions the parliament was unable to reach a quorum because the Iranian backed Hezbollah militant group and its ally MP Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc MPs boycotted the sessions.

Speaker Nabih Berri a key ally of Hezbollah postponed the election to October 21, 2015 .

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused Iran on several occasions of being behind the presidential vacuum.

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7 responses to “Presidential impasse: New proposal receives backing of foreign powers”

  1. arzatna1 Avatar

    Why Syria ?
    is its because we have 1.5 million Syrian refugees?

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      You forget the ones who arrived during The Occupation. Make that 3.5 million, I think.

  2. is this for a Lebanese president, as in in Lebanon!

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      I’m sure I know a couple of Lebanese women who could do it too. Why not cut it down to 6-month ‘terms’ and give a few Real Lebanese people with some brains a shot at it??
      After all, they only need to be able to read ‘The Accord’, and ‘Quorum Rules’.

      (Oh yah … Some will say ‘Nastyrallah was born there’ … but I meant Real Lebanese.)

  3. Patience2 Avatar

    Might a French ‘expat’ be elected?? This would please the skis AND the fuzzy-face all at once!

  4. 5thDrawer Avatar

    As that reads:
    Geagea is STILL the ONLY one who put up a hand and said: ‘I’m Lebanese. I’ll Run for President of Lebanon.’
    The other two are being stuffed into it by someone else …
    SO … Is some whimp pushed into the job going be a GOOD President?? Or just a mouth for the pushers.

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