Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad assured former Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, that he would not interfere in the selection of a presidential candidate in Lebanon, amid rumours that the two figures.
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Already mired in political and economic crises, Lebanon is now also without a president after Michael Aoun's mandate expired without a successor.Aoun's six-year term, that came to a close on Sunday, was marred by mass protests, a painful economic downturn and the August 2020 mega-explosion of ammonium nitrate that killed hundreds and laid waste to swathes of the capital Beirut.Today, headed by a caretaker government, Lebanon is unable to enact the reforms needed to access billions of dollars from international lenders to help save an economy in free-fall since late 2019.
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