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Presidential Elections Set for May 13

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Saturday, 26 April 2008

A 19th attempt to elect a president has been scheduled for May 13, a spokesman for Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said on Saturday as Lebanon remained mired in political deadlock. A previous session, scheduled for April 22, was postponed because of disagreement between the anti-Syrian majority, backed by the West and most Arab states, and the Hizbullah-led opposition, which is supported by Iran and Syria. "Speaker Berri has set a session for May 13, at midday," spokesman Ali Hamdan said. Speaker and opposition leader Berri has called on Lebanon's rival factions to hold talks under his auspices on forming a national unity government and on a new electoral law. The last attempt to elect a president was postponed, despite the presence in parliament of a number of MPs from the rival groups, because Berri said they did not number the requisite two-thirds quorum to hold the vote. Lebanon is gripped by deadlock with feuding political factions unable to agree on a deal to elect a successor to pro-Syrian former president Emile Lahoud, who stepped down in November at the end of his mandate. The country is facing its worst political crisis since the end of the civil war in 1990, pitting the anti-Syrian ruling coalition against the Hizbullah-led opposition. The parliamentary majority is demanding the immediate and unconditional election to the presidency of consensus candidate and army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman. A solution has yet to be found despite the efforts of Arab and international mediators, and the two sides remain at loggerheads.(AFP)

 

 

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