Lebanon entered a presidential vacuum on Oct. 31, 2022, after the term of President Michel Aoun ended without Parliament being able to elect a new president.

Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun on Thursday became the country’s 14th president, filling the top seat that has been vacant since Michel Aoun left office in October 2022. Born in 1964, Aoun ...

A second session was hosted during which 128 MPs cast their ballots. Lebanon's 13th President Michel Aoun left office after serving from 31 October 31, 2016, to October 30, 2022.

The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt to elect a successor to former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the army commander — whose term ended in October 2022.

Aoun is Lebanon's fifth army commander to become president, and the fourth in a row. Under multi-confessional Lebanon's power-sharing system, the president must be a Maronite Christian, as do ...

Aoun, 60, garnered 99 votes in a second-round ballot after falling short of the required 86-vote threshold in the first round, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced. The presidency, reserved for a ...

ALBAWABA - Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun, 89, appeared for the first time since leaving office last October. In the video, Michel was seen along ...

Michel Aoun Hezbollah Loses Majority Bloc in Lebanon Election, Results Show Voters drove out vital parliamentary allies of the militant faction, though not Hezbollah candidates themselves.

He then had an audience with Lebanese President Michel Aoun and subsequently claimed at a press conference that he had suffered “injustice and political persecution” at the hands of the Japanese ...

Supporters of Lebanon's head of state, Michel Aoun, as he prepares to leave at the end of his term, outside the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon. October 30, 2022.

Lebanon President Michel Aoun speaks at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2019, in New York City. He resigned from the presidency on Sunday.

Lebanon's outgoing head of state, Michel Aoun, vacated the presidential palace on Sunday, cheered on by thousands of his loyal supporters, a day before his mandate expires without a designated ...