Bassil Seeking Lebanese President with Sizeable Parliamentary, Ministerial Support

Leader of the Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil talks during a joint press conference with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, following their meeting in the latter's office in Budapest, Hungary, 15 July 2022. (EPA)

Head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) MP Gebran Bassil stressed that he opposes vacuum in the position of president.

“The country cannot tolerate such a vacuum,” he declared after holding talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at his summer residence in Diman.