The Lebanese President warns of "constitutional chaos" due to the failure to elect a successor

Michel Aoun signs the maritime border agreement between Lebanon and Israel at Baabda Palace.

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Lebanese President Michel Aoun warned yesterday, one day before leaving the Baabda presidential palace, of "constitutional chaos" due to the presidential vacancy with the inability to elect a new president and under a caretaker government he accuses of not having full powers.

In an interview with Reuters, Aoun said, "The vacuum does not fill the void."

Aoun is scheduled to leave the presidential palace in Baabda today, Sunday, a day before the end of his six-year term, but four electoral sessions failed to elect a president in light of the unprecedented division of Parliament after the May elections, as the political blocs were unable to reach consensus. A candidate to succeed Aoun.

Regarding his opinion on the occurrence of a presidential vacuum and the absence of an actual government, Aoun said in a television interview, which was reported in a statement by the Presidency of the Republic yesterday, "The scene is very, very unemployed, and according to the current situation, it is difficult to reach a solution."

On the agreement to demarcate the southern maritime borders, Aoun said, in the interview: “There was a threat to peace if the negotiations did not succeed, because we could not, in light of our need, freeze our natural wealth, and if we were in need of it, we would not have entered into a war. But we needed a specific production to save Lebanon.”

He pointed out that the completion of the demarcation of the southern maritime borders and the extraction of oil is the hope for the Lebanese who are experiencing a great disaster.

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