For the eighth time.. Lebanon fails to elect a president amid a severe economic crisis
country has now entered a fourth leadership vacuum even as it contends with the worst financial crisis in its history.
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The Lebanese parliament has failed for the eighth time to elect the country’s president to succeed former President Michel Aoun.
With the end of Aoun’s six-year term, which came on Oct. 31, the country has now entered a fourth leadership vacuum even as it contends with the worst financial crisis in its history.
Three periods of presidential vacuum
The Lebanese constitution provides for the election of a new president of the republic within a constitutional period that extends for two months before the end of the president’s term, and the candidate who obtains a majority of 86 votes in the first round of the election wins. sound.
The president of the country whose term ends cannot be re-elected, according to the Lebanese constitution, but he can run again after that in the following elections.
Lebanon has previously seen three spells of a presidential vacuum: from September 1988 to November 1989, from November 2007 to May 2008 and from May 2014 to October 2016, which ended when Aoun was elected into office.
Economic crisis
In a related context Football fans looking for a respite from Lebanon's crushing economic crisis have found a challenge in simply watching the World Cup after the bankrupt state failed to pay for broadcasting rights.
Lebanon has been gripped by an economic crisis that the World Bank dubbed one of the worst in modern history.
Since late 2019, the local currency has lost more than 95 percent of its market value, and poverty rates have climbed to cover most of the population.
Right until the start of the World Cup on November 20, Lebanese had hoped the matches would be broadcast free on public network Tele Liban, as was the case during the 2018 tournament.
