Bkirki Denies Setting List of Candidates for Presidency
The Maronite Patriarchate denied on Tuesday reports claiming that Bkirki has a list of candidates for the presidential post.
The Patriarchate stressed that it didn't interfere and will not intervene in the “game of names.”
The comments come in light of remarks by Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday that he approves a list of nominees for presidency.
Geagea said that the list includes former Interior Minister Ziad Baroud, Demianos Qattar and Roger Deeb.
Lebanon has been plunged into a leadership vacuum after Michel Suleiman's presidential term ended on May 25 with rival political blocs still divided over a new leader.
Over the past two months the parliament convened five times to try to elect a successor to Suleiman but failed during the last four sessions due to a lack of quorum.
The presidential vacuum raised fears that it would affect Lebanon's power-sharing agreement under which the president should be a Maronite, the premier a Sunni and the speaker a Shiite.
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