Report: Senior Politician Anticipates 'Imminent' Election of a President

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A prominent Lebanese official said that it is likely for the Lebanese to “sleep one day to wake up and find that a president has been elected,” As Safir daily reported on Friday.

“I am certain that we are now slowly approaching the end of the vacuum at the top state post. The coming summer could be a stage of setting the foundation for the election of a president next autumn,” said the senior politician on condition of anonymity.

“Trust me...we might sleep one day and wake up to find that we have a president,” he stated.

The unnamed official justified his optimism based on information affirming that the stalemate in the presidential elections has become the focal point of discussions at the local and international levels.

“It has become a topic of discussion in internal and external meetings. It is being approached in multinational languages: American, Russian, French, Papal and German… through the two mandatory languages of Saudi Arabia and Persian,” he stated.

Lebanon has been without a president since the term of President Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014.

Conflicts among the rival March 8 and March 14 alliances have thwarted attempts aiming at electing a successor.

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SourceNaharnet
Comments 2
Missing ysurais 06 May 2016, 14:32

Dreamingggggg.. no president..not today and not tomorrow,..unless Sayed is elected president n murched..

Thumb Elemental 06 May 2016, 22:50

Never take the word of anyone there seriously, their credibility died ages ago. Empty words from empty people.