Report: Berri won't call for vote soon, rejects Bkirki list of candidates
The atmosphere of the presidential deliberations does not indicate that Speaker Nabih Berri will call for a presidential election session in the near future and “the Lebanese will likely bid farewell to the month of May without seeing a president in the Baabda Palace,” a media report said.
“Berri has received from Bkirki a list containing a host of (presidential) candidates in order to pick three of them so that the Maronite church can promote them with the other parliamentary blocs ahead of taking the names to parliament,” Annahar newspaper reported.
But Berri rejected the list, noting that his candidate is Suleiman Franjieh and that Washington and Riyadh have not vetoed his nomination, the daily added.
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