Intense Consultations to Agree on Names of Compromise Presidential Candidates
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The names of several presidential candidates have been discussed as potential figures to fill the ongoing vacuum at the Baabda Palace, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.
An Nahar newspaper reported that head of the Mustaqbal Movement MP Saad Hariri discussed last week with French President Francois Hollande in Paris the names of four candidates from the March 14 alliance and three centrists.
The names were later discussed during a meeting between Hariri and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday night in Rome.
The daily said that al-Rahi agreed on the names of one candidate from the March 14 coalition and two centrists to run for the presidential elections, noting that the nomination of one of the centrists requires a constitutional amendment.
However, al-Liwaa newspaper reported that Hariri and al-Rahi discussed the candidacy of four nominees, who are consensual and weren't mentioned in media speculations.
Al-Akbar daily said that Hariri discussed with al-Rahi the names of three candidates that were agreed upon by Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, who in turn had announced his candidacy after the term of ex-President Michel Suleiman ended in May.
The three newspapers didn't reveal the name of any of the candidates.
March 14 officials, according to the daily, will focus in the upcoming period on pressing international powers to agree on staging the presidential elections ahead of the Day of Independence on November 21.
Lebanon plunged into a presidential vacuum due to the failure of the rival March 8 and 14 camps to agree on a compromise candidate.
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14 October 2014, 10:04
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All this talk is nonsense. Unless General Aoun the leader of the largest Christian bloc in Lebanon's parliament is not going to be President, it is then who General Aoun nominates.
They can run to all the embassies in the world, they can crawl to the americans, saudis and french like they used to crawl to the syrians.
This will not change the status quo.
It is bad enough that Christians only get to elect 30 out of the 64 Christian MP's under this lousy electoral law, now they cannot even name a President?
Since 1990 the Christians have been marginalized, enough is enough.
14 October 2014, 13:54
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I do not see why Sayyid Saad Beik needs to talk with the president of Hollande, only His Eminence Abdullah Inbu Abdel Aziz (pbuh) is entitled to naming an Emir for the Lebanonese province.
14 October 2014, 15:31
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the only declared candidate worthy of being our president:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=649163968484187
14 October 2014, 14:01
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As to my knowledge Lebanon is not a communitarian federation and as such it is up to all lebanese to choose their president through the constitutional institutions. We rather Aoun represents the majority of Christian vote does not mean it is Aoun exclusive right to choose the president. The president may be Christian but is the president of all lebanese.
14 October 2014, 10:06
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five names to be authenticated by patriarch AlRahi to be sent to the parlimemnt
like Aoun/Geaga/Helou/Baroud/ Mr x and the PMs to elect one
14 October 2014, 11:24
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Now the question that is worth asking how Presidents in Lebanon are elected or appointed to office?. Well as everyone knows, historically speaking Lebanon's ruling sectarian political elites in coordination with the Maronite Church have always appointed their choice of Presidents only after they receive the necessary assurances from foreign regional and imperial power center's full blessing of that particular candidate in question. Afterwords, a theatrical parliamentary session begins as a mere rubber stamp just to appoint that candidate in question. Normally, the choice of Maronite candidates come from civil servants, dynastic feudal families or Army generals. Today due to deep political differences over Syria, and other various domestic issues has further exacerbated deep factional tensions between Lebanon's ruling bourgeoisie and created the conditions that lead to the Presidential vacuum.
15 October 2014, 03:58
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Why don't they just use a whole complete system such the U.S a bit? Your party (whatever it is) chooses you to represent them, you go for a debate and show what you will do for the country and not your party only and people will vote. Sorry I forgot, it's not simple in Lebanon - The son and his son and grand son and grand grand son has to serve. And all have to know how steal money properly, otherwise you are screwed
