Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Slams ‘Cold-blooded Violation of Constitution’

(Asharq Al Awsat).

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai said on Sunday that parliament’s failed attempt to elect a president on Wednesday was a “cold-blooded violation of the constitution.”

He 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.

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