{"id":16436,"date":"2025-01-09T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/lebanese-parliament-holds-session-to-elect-new-president\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T11:01:59","slug":"lebanese-parliament-holds-session-to-elect-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/lebanese-parliament-holds-session-to-elect-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese parliament holds session to elect new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4305213.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The Lebanese parliament has begun a session to elect a president on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the possibility of electing a president is higher than in the past, but it is still not certain.<\/p>\n<p>Since November 2022, the Lebanese political system has operated without a president and with an interim prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>After the Lebanese parliamentarians failed in the morning session, the speaker of the parliament adjourned the session for 2 hours. They will continue the meeting in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Wednesday that the president would be elected by the Parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Aoun commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Force, and Suleiman Frangieh, the head of the Marada Movement, are among the main presidential candidates for the post in Lebanon, and with Najib Mikati&#8217;s statement, it seems that an agreement has been achieved between the Lebanese factions on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/226698\/Lebanese-parliament-holds-session-to-elect-new-president\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lebanese parliament has begun a session to elect a president on Wednesday.\u00a0 It is said that the possibility of electing a president is higher than in the past, but it is still not certain. Since November 2022, the Lebanese political system has operated without a president and with an interim prime minister. After the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}