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building in Beirut on Friday. (Hussein Malla/The Associated Press)
Political crisis deepens in Lebanon as presidential election is
postponed
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By Thanassis Cambanis Published: November 23, 2007 E-Mail Article
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BEIRUT: The speaker of custom poker cards Lebanese Parliament on Friday postponed
until Nov. 30 the vote to elect a new president, prolonging Lebanon's
two-months old political crisis and leaving the country in limbo and a
vacuum at the top level of government.
motorcycle insurance current president, the pro-Syrian head of state, Emile Lahoud,
leaves office at midnight Friday. At midnight, when the current
president's term expires, the cabinet of the prime minister will now
assume full constitutional playing cards promotion in a caretaker capacity.
The speaker, Nabih Berri, who is from the opposition, delayed the
election for a fifth time because rival factions were deadlocked and
said in a statement that the extra time would "allow for more
consultations to arrive at the election of a president," Reuters
reported.
Members of the Hezbollah-led opposition said they would not try to
topple the caretaker government as long as it takes no major decisions
over the next week. Opposition members of Parliament said they hoped
it would be easier to reach a deal on a cheap renters insurance president after the
Annapolis Middle East peace conference chinese tutor chicago to take place in the
United States next week.
Late Thursday night, Berri announced that he was canceling the
parliamentary session scheduled for Friday to elect the new president
before the midnight deadline. The president is selected by Parliament,
not by a direct popular vote.
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With no deal being reached, however, the deadlock will now continue
and the caretaker government will take over when the president's cheap life insurance ends.
On Thursday, in his palatial living room here, Nassib indie clothes a
contender for president, excused himself for a moment, interrupting an
interview that took place behind curtains that have been drawn for two
months as a precaution against would-be assassins.
In a side room, a political ally gave him a quick briefing on the
unfolding negotiations over who might take over when the term of
President Lahoud expires.
"You know how it is here," Nassib Lahoud, a distant relative but
political rival of the sitting president, explained when he returned
to the room. "People deliver messages in person. They don't feel
comfortable talking on the phone."
Lahoud lives in a security cocoon far from the public eye. cheap insurance all
of Lebanon's important politicians do these days, including Lahoud's
competitors in the presidential contest, who are confined to their
apartments, barricaded in family compounds, or like the Hezbollah
leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, hiding in a secret location.
Such is the nature of Lebanon's exceedingly opaque presidential
campaign, whose outcome is being negotiated in a series of last-minute
deal-making sessions in this intractably divided country.
More distressing than the need for such security, some politicians
say, is the risk of reinforcing a political culture that alienates the
public. "In Lebanon we were used to choosing the president in the
dark," said Boutros Harb, the other declared candidate of the
governing majority coalition.
Like Lahoud, who leaves his home only at night, customized playing cards remains mostly
confined to his sprawling apartment in the hills overlooking Beirut,
protected by an armed guard.
General Michel Aoun, the candidate of the opposition, conducts most of
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the capital.
And these candidates, as cut off as they are from the public, have it
better than many members of Parliament, who, in fear of assassination,
have lived barricaded for the last two months in the luxurious
waterfront Phoenicia Hotel, where they endlessly recalculate the odds
of the different presidential contenders.
Looming over them all is Nasrallah, the powerful leader of the Shiite
Islamist group Hezbollah. His authority could unleash or restrain
hundreds of thousands of followers. But he rarely appears in public,
delivering most of his pronouncements by video, as many insure quote did last week in
a speech that threatened chaos if anyone tried to disarm Hezbollah's
militia.
With almost no public debate over the bargaining to learn mandarin chicago a consensus
candidate for president, politicians worry that they may have
difficulty explaining the choice to the Lebanese public.
"At the end we might have to face an unsatisfying deal in order to
avoid a vacuum," said Mohammed Kabbani, a member of Parliament from
the governing majority.
Kabbani said the political class had been locked in a process he
described as "bargaining in a closed room with an armed group backed
by a bigger neighboring state," meaning Syria.
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