Lebanese President Seeks Second Term
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Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said he wants to serve a second term in office, but he needs a constitutional amendment and the approval of power broker Syria to stay there.
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The president in his second term is reaching out to other nations, though reservations remain about groups like the UN.
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Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday postponed a parliamentary session to elect a new president until Nov. 12 to give rival factions time to agree on a compromise candidate, a statement said.
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The presidential election in Lebanon is postponed for a ninth time, despite more efforts to resolve the crisis.
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The office said Hariri would not form the next government. The outgoing prime minister has led Lebanon for most of the time since the end of the civil war in 1990.
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President Jacques Chirac said Lebanon had missed an opportunity for democracy by bowing to Syrian pressure and extending the term of its president through a constitutional amendment rather than putting the ...
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The leader of Lebanon's governing coalition has accused Syria of seeking to drag out the political limbo surrounding the election of a new president.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon -- President Emile Lahoud appointed staunchly pro-Syrian politician Omar Karami as prime minister on Thursday and asked him to form the next government, replacing billionaire Rafik Hariri in a move that consolidates Syria&#39;s hold on
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Syria said yesterday it would deepen ties with Lebanon, despite a UN Security Council resolution warning against outside interference there. The resolution aimed -- in vain -- to head off a vote in Lebanon's parliament to extend the term of the Syrian-backed president, Emile Lahoud, for three years after his current six-year term expires. Many council members regarded the extension ...
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MPs in Beirut vote to extend the Lebanese president's term despite a UN warning to Syria not to interfere in Lebanon.
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BEIRUT -- Lebanon's Parliament amended the country's constitution yesterday to extend pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud's term, ignoring UN calls to hold an election to choose the head of state.
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The dominance of Damascus in Lebanese politics gives rise to a new opposition leader.
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Lebanon on Friday postponed its presidential election to January 21 from Saturday, the 12th such delay, despite efforts by the Arab League to get rival Lebanese leaders to agree an Arab plan to end the country's crisis.
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MOSCOW, Jan 7 (IPS) - Mikheil Saakashvili has been elected to a second  term of presidency amid electoral disputes. He leads with 55.23  percent of the vote, followed by opposition candidate Levan  Gachechiladze with 23.86 percent.
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Lebanon&#39;s president has reaffirmed that Beirut will continue to work closely with Syria, as hundreds of Lebanese came to congratulate him on the extension of his term, which Washington says was orchestrated by Damascus.
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A powerful car bomb that killed a Christian lawmaker was the latest in a deadly string of bombings that have rocked Lebanon as the country prepares to select a new president.
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Lebanon was marking the second anniversary of Rafik al-Hariri's assassination on Wednesday and anti-Syrian leaders have called for a mass rally to commemorate the killing despite deadly bus bombings.