Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian called on the political forces in Lebanon to dialogue to elect a new president for the country to succeed former President Michel Aoun, whose term expired at the end of last October.
Abdullahian stressed - during his visit to Lebanon - the importance of completing the political process in a way that serves national interests, as he put it.
Parliament has failed for the tenth time since last September to elect a new president, despite the decline in the names of candidates from inside and outside the country, most notably the army commander, General Joseph Aoun.
A few days ago, Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, called for a session to elect a president for the republic, in light of the continued positions of the political parties as they were without reaching any way out of the crisis, despite the ongoing meetings and contacts between more than one bloc and the movement of more than one deputy.
Despite the end of President Michel Aoun's term at the end of October 2022, the file remains frozen due to the expansion of internal disputes and the disruption of any external initiative that pushes the Lebanese parties to take steps to facilitate the election of a president, in light of the continuing division over determining the party to be elected.
whether internal or external.
Amid anticipation of what would result from a quartet meeting in Paris in mid-January to discuss the file without an official or political Lebanese presence, observers suggested that it would not achieve quick results, but it might set a path for a solution mechanism.
The picture in Lebanon, according to analysts, is still blurry, but there are signs that can be built upon, and it is waiting for a regional response that has not yet matured, and an internal movement at the level of responsibility required by the seriousness of the crisis that weighs on Lebanon.
Lebanon is facing an unprecedented governance crisis with the absence of a president for the country and under a caretaker government headed by Najib Mikati with limited powers, and a divided parliament, so no party has the power to impose a freely elected president as stipulated in the constitution.