Lebanese MPs attend the 12th parliamentary session to elect a new president in the capital Beirut's downtown district on June 14, 2023 amid bitter divisions between the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah and its opponents. - Lebanon has been without a head of state for more than seven months, and the last bid to elect a president was held on January 19. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
BEIRUT (Reuters) : Lebanon’s top Maronite cleric said on Sunday that parliament’s failed attempt to elect a president on Wednesday was a “cold-blooded violation of the constitution.”
The Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai called the session a “farce” and urged every official to “admit their mistakes and correct them” after nearly eight months of presidential vacuum in Lebanon.
Four years since Lebanon went into a financial meltdown that marks its worst crisis since the 1975-90 civil war, parliament failed for a 12th time to elect someone to fill the post, which is reserved for a Maronite Christian under the country’s sectarian system.
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