Posted By
Najib
Oct 31, 2022 06:51
President Aoun's mandate ends today yet the Lebanese parliament hasn't yet elected a new president. We've already had four sessions where the candidate who got the most votes was Michel Moawad , knowing that two-thirds of the Lebanese parliament is required to elect a president in the first round, and a simply majority in the second round. We currently have two types of candidates, the "political" candidates if I may call them so and other…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 29, 2022 06:47
Lebanon's President Michel Aoun is spending his last week in Baabda giving out interviews and medals of merit. That's not very different from any other president, except Aoun appears to be keen on awarding medals almost exclusively to followers of his political party or sympathizers. I'm not very familiar with the conditions that a candidate needs to meet to get a medal, but one cannot but question giving out one to a journalist who doesn't…
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