Fouad Abdallah Chehab was a Lebanese general and statesman who served as president of Lebanon from 1958 to 1964. He is considered to be the founder of the Lebanese Army after Lebanon gained independence from France, and became its first commander in 1946.
Émile Eddé was a Lebanese lawyer and politician who served twice as the President of Lebanon.
René Moawad was a Lebanese politician who served as the 9th president of Lebanon for 18 days, from 5 to 22 November 1989, before his assassination by unknown assailants.
Bechara Khalil El Khoury was a Lebanese politician who served as the 1st president of Lebanon, holding office from 21 September 1943 to 18 September 1952, apart from an 11-day interruption in 1943. He had previously served two short terms as Prime Minister, from 5 May 1927 to 10 August 1928, and 9 May to 11 October 1929.
The Presidentof the Lebanese Republic is the head of state of Lebanon. The president is elected by the parliament for a term of six years, which cannot be renewed immediately because they can only be renewed non-consecutively. By convention, the president is always a Maronite Christian who fulfills the same requirements as a candidate for the house of representatives, as per article 49 of the Lebanese constitution.
The National Bloc is a secular political party in Lebanon that was founded in 1943 as a parliamentary bloc for the 1943 Lebanese elections by Émile Eddé but was later formed as a political party in 1946.
An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon on 25 May 2008, after the term of incumbent President Émile Lahoud expired on 24 November 2007 at midnight. General Michel Sleiman, the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, was elected as the consensus candidate after months of delays in holding the election due to an ongoing political dispute.
Sabri Hamadeh, also written as Sabri Hamadé or Hamada (1902–1976) was a Lebanese politician and long-time Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.
Petro Trad was a Lebanese lawyer, politician, who served as President of the French Mandate of Lebanon for a brief period.
General elections were held in Lebanon on 15 April 1951, with a second round in some constituencies on 22 April. Independent candidates won the majority of seats. Voter turnout was 54.7%. The governing party, Constitutional Bloc, did not have a clear organization, so it is difficult to determine the number of its members who participated in this election. Nonetheless, the government backed three "Constutional" lists in Mount Lebanon and had 14 of their 22 candidates elected. Former Constitutionalist minister Camille Chamoun became an opposition candidate in an alliance with Kamal Jumblatt.
Nazem Akkari was the 7th prime minister of Lebanon and then Deputy Prime Minister of Lebanon in 1952 during the most turbulent time of transfer of power from President Bechara El Khoury to President Camille Chamoun.
An indirect presidential election took place in Lebanon from 23 April 2014 until 31 October 2016. No candidate reached a two-thirds majority vote in the first round, and subsequent rounds failed to gain a quorum. Finally, in the second round of the forty-sixth session held on 31 October 2016, Michel Aoun, a member of parliament and formerly a disputed prime minister and acting president in a rival government near the end of the Lebanese Civil War, was elected with 83 votes by parliament. He took office the same day as the 13th President of Lebanon since independence in 1943.
Constitutional Bloc was a Lebanese political party established in 1934 by Bechara El Khoury and advocating the full independence of Lebanon ruled at the time by the French Mandate and fought for its achievement in 1943. The Bloc also advocated an active role in establishing the Arab League with Lebanon as an integral part of the Arab World. It was also active in approving the Lebanese National Pact as an agreement between the various Lebanese religious communities, an unwritten agreement that laid the foundation of Lebanon as a multi-confessional state.
The 1936 Lebanese presidential election was the third presidential election, which was held during a parliamentary session on 20 January 1936. The Nationalist Émile Eddé defeated the Constitutional Bechara El Khoury. He took office as the third president of Greater Lebanon and the second elected one after Charles Debbas, who was elected in 1926 and 1929.
The 1943 Lebanese presidential election was the fourth presidential election, which was held as a parliamentary session on 21 September 1943. The Constitutional Bechara El Khoury was elected as the only candidate and took office as the sixth president of Greater Lebanon.
Sheikh Muhammad ibn Husayn ibn Muhammad al-Jisr was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon from 18 October 1927 to 10 May 1932.
The Military Cabinet of Fouad Chehab fifteenth Lebanese government after independence, and the fifteenth under President Bechara El Khoury. The cabinet was the first government since independence to be headed by a non-Sunni sect and formed by Major General Fouad Chehab. The government which was an emergency cabinet was formed by Decree No. 9444 on 18 September 1952 and it continued to operate until 30 September 1952. The government oversaw the process of electing the President of the Republic to succeed President Bechara El Khoury, who resigned after forming the government.
An indirect election of the president of Lebanon took place from 29 September 2022 until 9 January 2025 to determine the successor of term-limited incumbent Michel Aoun. The commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, Joseph Aoun, was elected president in the second round of voting of the thirteenth parliamentary session on 9 January 2025, securing 99 votes. He took office on the same day while keeping his position as the commander of the Lebanese Forces, becoming the 14th president and the fifth army commander to assume the role.
The 2022 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was an election to elect the speaker of the 24th Lebanese Parliament. It was 7th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement in 1989.
An indirect presidential election was held in the Parliament of Lebanon in 1952 following the end of Fouad Chehab's military cabinet. The Parliament of Lebanon elected Camille Chamoun, who at that time was an ally of Kamal Jumblatt and a member of the Progressive Socialist Party parliamentary bloc, as the next president of Lebanon on 23 September 1952 to officially succeed Bechara Khoury's term becoming the second president of the Lebanese Republic. Chamoun won with 74 votes out of the 76 attending MPs.
