Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting on Thursday, January 9, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the crisis-hit, war-battered country.
“The speaker announces that the president is Joseph Aoun,” speaker Nabih Berri said, reporting that Aoun received 99 out of 128 votes after failing to get the required majority in a first round earlier in the day.
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