Lebanon’s military chief Joseph Aoun has been elected because the nation’s president, ending an influence vacuum that lasted for greater than two years.
Aoun secured 99 votes from the 128-seat parliament to win the presidency in a second spherical of voting on Thursday afternoon – a transfer that got here weeks after a tenuous ceasefire settlement halted 14 months of combating between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, because the nation seeks assist for reconstruction.
Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr studies from Beirut
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