After a two-and-a-half year vacancy, the position of Lebanese head of state was finally filled Monday Oct 31,2016 when veteran politician and former general Michel Aoun was elected president by parliament.
An octogenarian former general, Aoun has long eyed the presidency, a position that must be filled by a Maronite Christian under Lebanon’s confessional political system.
With his election, Aoun becomes the 13th president of the tiny, Middle Eastern country riddled with internal sectarian divides that have plunged it into war in the past and that holds together at peacetime with a fragile mix of power sharing and realpolitik.
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