Report: Le Drian to meet Azour in Paris
French special envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian will meet with presidential candidate Jihad Azour in Paris in the coming days, a local media report said.
Le Drian had arrived last week in Beirut to end a political impasse that has left the country without a president for more than seven months. He met with officials, party heads and other politicians.
Former Finance Minister Jihad Azour, who was not able to meet Le Drian in Beirut, agreed in a phone call with French Ambassador Anne Grillo to meet the French envoy in Paris, al-Jadeed said.
Azour is an 'intersection' candidate between the opposition and the Free Patriotic Movement against the Shiite Duo's candidate Suleiman Franjieh. Neither had enough support to get the required two-thirds majority in the last presidential vote, with Azour garnering 59 votes and Franjieh 51.
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