Report: A Consensual President is Ready and Waiting
A consensual president to fill Lebanon's two-year vacuum is ready and waiting to be elected, and he garners the support of international and regional powers, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.
If Hizbullah remains adamant to elect founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun for the post, that means that a consensus nominee is ready somewhere and waiting to fill the seat, visitors to Washington told the daily without elaborating.
Hizbullah has expressed on several occasions that it will continue to back Aoun for the presidential post against Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh who is backed by al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri.
The daily added quoting the visitors, that the unnamed candidate has not only won an international support, but a regional one as well.
The controversial file of electing a president will be opened at a crucial timing linked to the regional developments, especially to the situation in Syria, they remarked.
The pan-Arab al-Hayat daily said that Hizbullah has kicked off a round of consultations with the major political powers in the country pressing the need to agree on a “comprehensive basket” that includes the election of Aoun. It believes that there is no point of Aoun's election unless it is coupled with a prior agreement on these conditions without exception.
Lebanon has been in a state of vacuum since the term of president Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014.
Conflicts between the rival March 8 and March 14 alliances have thwarted efforts to elect a successor.
Source: Naharnet
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