رسالة من كيري الى باسيل والحريري يكثف مشاوراته الباريسية لبحث الملف الرئاسي

Why do we have to take Saudi Arabia's input into account in trying to elect our President? What does the modern-day founder of terrorism know about democracy? Why should we be asking these barbaric terrorists for advice?

Why not extend SLEIMAN'S term?

This is all part of the soap opera... the militia wants a vacuum, so they can freely do their Jihadist duty without a Lebanese Presidential interfering.

popular vote for presidency is the only solution to curb outside interferences and sterile political quarrels and nothing is needed to do it except a date no parliament sessions, no officials racing against time ,....
god bless real democracy

I doubt presidential interference would make much difference, there has to be something more to it, there has to be a bigger picture we can't see. It's very obvious that there are some major regional changes about to happen, and I think in the next few days we will see some surprising developments in the alliances. I fear for Lebanon, it looks like for some the country is the last thing that matters.

1988 Aoun was appointed prime minister who's only duty was to urgently secure the ekection of a president. Instead he decided he was "Président et six Ministres" illegally moved into the presidential palace, started and lost two wars then ran away. It was him or nobody and was willing to destroy the country to become president, here we go again.

The constitutional amendment should read:
If Parliament fails to elect a new President on time, the Parliament must be declared resigned (their pay and benefits ceased) and new Parliamentary elections held.
Parliament must be held accountable for all the mess we are in.

And that my friend is the answer to the question I've been asking all along, this is the aim of one of the parties, to ensure they have favorable majority, by any means, of the parliamentary votes. This is why it is crucial to avoid this and elect a president, because as long as there is a military power on the ground that can overwhelm the national army, parliamentary elections can not be held democratically. You have just hit the nail on its head!!!

Lebanon needs to change the way it elects its president. This deal with the Parliament and the ability of pretenders to boycott sessions and thus frustrate succession in the office of the Presidency is a joke.
The country needs to move to popular election. Still with a Maronite President, but let the people go to the polls and vote caza by caza with their vote determining the vote of the caza delegation, much as the electoral college elects the US President.

It would therefore still require 65 votes of Parliament to be elected, but the people, the citizens of Lebanon would vote and their vote would determine how the Deputies cast their votes. Rather than Berri or Aoun or Nasrallah deciding, or KSA or Tehran, or Paris or Washington deciding, the Lebanese should be the source of the vote with their personal votes cast for their President.

The next parliamentary elections have to be held without the effect of arms, only then you would know what Lebanese actually want. This president to be elected is so feared by someone because they know he has a very small constitutional right that could render chaos into their plans. The minute this parliament loses the power vote favorable to them, they will loose all legitimacy, whether they care about that or not, it does not matter, but it will at last expose to many of their or their allies followers their true intentions and their priorities, which most definitely do not include the best interest of Lebanon as an independent entity

In a society such as Lebanon that is politically segregated by Confessional Identity the person with the greatest national credibility is the one who can secure cross confessional support. The Uber-Maronite may be the Maronite's ultimate candidate, but what credibility does he or she have nationally, even among the non-Maronite Christians? Very little. The Maronite President must be Maronite, of course, but he or she must arise above the parochialism of his sect, from which he came, to see the whole country and serve all of her people.

Only the smart person will know why there is no foreign intervention. C'mon guys, let's see who amongst you is of literacy, wisdom and knowledge.

i think it is high time the constitution is changed, and we remove from the deputees their role in selecting a president. I would propose we elect the president by popular vote. The candidates have to convince us the voters, and not a party or another, nor some other country(ies).