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Logo of the Lebanese general election, 2009. Preliminary results indicated that the turnout had been as high as 55%. [7] The March 14 Alliance garnered 71 seats in the 128-member parliament, while the March 8 Alliance won 57 seats. This result is virtually the same as the result from the election in 2005. However, the March 14 alliance saw this ...
The 2022–2024 Lebanese presidential election is an ongoing indirect election to elect the president of Lebanon following the expiration of term-limited incumbent Michel Aoun 's mandate on 31 October 2022. [1] The outgoing president has served since 31 October 2016, following the end of the 2-year presidential crisis. [2]
Lebanon was ranked second most electoral democracy in the Middle East according to V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023 with a score of 0.157 out of 1. [2][3] Those who are above 21 and are non active military personal are permitted to vote. Elections in Lebanon are made up of loose coalitions, usually organized locally, are formed for electoral ...
Amal. Elected Speaker. Nabih Berri. Amal. The 2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was the 5th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement, held on 25 June 2009 during the first session of the 23rd parliament. The incumbent Speaker Nabih Berri and head of the Amal Movement was re-elected to a fifth term.
Chehab became the Prime Minister of Lebanon in September 1952, and hold the additional portfolio of defense minister while also former a military cabinet. Chehab was then appointed acting president with the duty to ensure an emergency democratic presidential election. 2. Camille Chamoun.
Pierre Gemayel and Walid Eido, both assassinated, were replaced in a 2007 by-election by Camille Khoury and Mohammed Amin el Itani. Antoine Ghanem, assassinated in September 2007, was not replaced until the June 2009 regularly scheduled parliamentary election ushered in his successor.
However, from the mid-1970s until the parliamentary elections in 1992, the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) precluded the exercise of political rights. According to the constitution, direct elections must be held for the parliament every four years, however after the parliamentary election in 2009 [1] another election was not held until 2018.
The presidentof the Lebanese Republic (Arabic: رئيس الجمهورية اللبنانية, romanized:Ra’īs al-Jumhūriyyah al-Lubnāniyyah) is the head of state of Lebanon. The president is elected by the parliament for a term of six years, which cannot be renewed immediately because they can only be renewed non-consecutively.