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Lebanon election postponed to May 7

30 Abr 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
Your Middle East (AFP)

Lebanon's parliament failed Wednesday to elect a president, for a second time in a week, raising fears the post will remain vacant amid tensions over neighbouring war-torn Syria.

Damascus ally the Hezbollah bloc refused to attend Wednesday's session, ensuring parliament was left without the quorum needed to vote for a successor to incumbent President Michel Sleiman.

Parliament speaker "Nabih Berri has set ... May 7 as a new date to hold a parliamentary session, given the lack of quorum on Wednesday", the National News Agency reported.

Nadine Musa, primera mujer aspirante a la presidencia libanesa, busca "un cambio radical"

23 Abr 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
El Diario

La abogada y activista Nadine Musa, la primera mujer que aspira a la Presidencia del Líbano, busca dar un "cambio radical" al sistema político para que haya una "verdadera democracia", mediante la incorporación de una nueva generación de dirigentes y la paridad de las mujeres.

En una entrevista con Efe, Musa muestra su confianza en el "potencial extraordinario" de sus compatriotas antes de que el Parlamento comience hoy a votar para elegir al sucesor del actual presidente, Michel Suleimán, cuyo mandato expira el próximo 25 de mayo.

Syria lawmaker becomes first presidential challenger

23 Abr 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily Star Lebanon

An independent Syrian lawmaker registered Wednesday as the first challenger in a June presidential election widely expected to return incumbent Bashar al-Assad to power despite a raging civil war.

Assad's government hit back at a torrent of international criticism of its decision to call the election despite the violence that has killed more than 150,000 people in three year, insisting it was its sovereign right to do so.

Assad has yet to declare his own candidacy but he is widely expected to stand and win a new seven-year term.

First candidate says to contest Lebanon's presidential race

08 Abr 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
Reuters

Lebanese Christian politician Samir Geagea announced on Friday he will run for president in an election due next month, the first candidate to formally enter a race overshadowed by growing violence and months of political paralysis.

President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ends in late May. Parliament must approve his successor with a two-thirds majority.

The vice-chairman of Geagea's Lebanese Forces party, George Adwan, told party members the group's executive body "unanimously nominates party chief Samir Geagea for the Lebanese presidential election."

Rai, Maronite Council stress need for election

19 Mar 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily Star Lebanon

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai met with President of the Central Maronite Council Wadih Khazen Tuesday to stress the need to hold a presidential election and avoid a political vacuum. 

“His Eminence confirmed the importance of preventing any vacuum in official positions in the country, whether political or administrative … stressing the need for and the importance of the transition to presidential elections,” Khazen said. 

Slowly, quietly, the presidential race begins

06 Mar 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily Star Lebanon

The mutual admiration between U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun along with his permanent minister Gebran Bassil, currently foreign affairs minister, is no longer a secret among political and diplomatic circles in Lebanon.

Aoun, the head of the Change and Reform bloc, describes the ambassador as one of his closest contacts because Hale is honest with him, and says there will be no rivalry or political hostility as was the case with other American ambassadors over the last nine years or so.

Hopes for imminent new government dashed

11 Feb 2014
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily Star Lebanon

All signs indicate that an all-embracing political government will not be formed soon given the unresolved row over the rotation of key ministerial portfolios, political sources said Monday.

“No government will be formed in the next few days because of continued differences over the rotation of ministerial portfolios,” a source familiar with the negotiations told The Daily Star.

“Contacts on the Cabinet formation have come to a halt in the absence of new proposals to break the monthslong deadlock.”

Hezbollah, allies have to be represented in next Cabinet: MP

27 Jul 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily News Star

BEIRUT: Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad said Saturday the resistance group and its allies should be fully represented in the next Cabinet or the government will never form.

“We have agreed with our allies that either we all participate in the government or we are all out,” Raad, head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, said during an Iftar hosted by Hezbollah in the south.

Raad said that his party would not accept any other government make-up “in order to guarantee that no [political party] conspires against [Hezbollah].”

Cabinet efforts stall as Parliament session awaits

28 Jun 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
The Daily News Star

Efforts to forge an agreement on a new Cabinet appeared to be stalled Thursday as political rhetoric ramped up ahead of next week’s parliamentary sessions, the first since MPs extended their mandate and postponed elections. There has been no progress in attempts to form a new Cabinet, political sources said following a meeting between Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam andCaretaker Social Affairs Minister Wael Abu Faour, a representative of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.

GCC: Hezbollah terror group

03 Jun 2013
Bahréin
Irán
Kuwait
Líbano
Omán
Catar
Arabia Saudí
Emiratos Árabes Unidos
Fuente: 
Arab News

The Gulf Cooperation Council yesterday unanimously declared Lebanon-based Hezbollah a terrorist organization and said it would take measures against the group’s interest in the Gulf countries.
“All GCC countries are convinced that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization,” Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Ghanim bin Fadl Al-Buainain told reporters following a meeting of GCC foreign ministers in Jeddah.

Salam begins Cabinet formation consultations

09 Abr 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
the Daily Star

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam embarked Tuesday on the difficult mission of forming a new government whose primary task would be to supervise the upcoming elections.

As part of a two-day nonbinding parliamentary consultations, Salam held a series of meetings with former prime ministers and parliamentary blocs who informed him of their vision for the next Cabinet.

Tamam Salam es nombrado nuevo primer ministro de Líbano

05 Abr 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
RTVE

El diputado suní Tamam Salam, considerado un moderado, fue nombrado este sábado primer ministro del Líbano, dos semanas después de que su predecesor, Nayib Mikati, dimitiera por desavenencias en el seno de su Ejecutivo.

Salam, de 67 años, obtuvo el respaldo prácticamente unánime de los grupos parlamentarios libaneses, según los medios libaneses, que indican que 124 de los 128 diputados apoyaron su candidatura, incluido el poderoso grupo chií Hizbulá.

March 14 youth demand unity

18 Mar 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
the Daily Star

Activists called on March 14 coalition politicians Sunday to unite and build a civil state, during the annual commemoration of the coalition’s founding at the Beirut International Exhibition and Leisure center.

The event held in Beirut, where activists, rather than political figures, took center stage, revealed sharp differences in opinion between key March 14 leaders on how to reform the country’s electoral law.

Mikati, Sleiman sign decree calling for elections

04 Mar 2013
Líbano
Fuente: 
the Daily Star

Prime Minister Najib Mikati and President Michel Sleiman signed a decree Monday calling for elections to be held on June 9, government sources told The Daily Star Monday.

The sources added that the step was a routine constitutional move and would still allow political leaders to agree on a new electoral proposal instead of the amended 1960 law used in the 2009 polls.

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