Lebanon's Parliament on Thursday failed to elect a new president, with the majority of lawmakers casting blank ballots and some walking out.
Under Lebanon’s fragile sectarian power-sharing system, the country’s 128-member parliament votes for a president, who must be a Maronite Christian. That's a hard-to-clear threshold and in the context of the country's struggling economy and deeply-divided Parliament, Lebanon's unresolved leadership question has intensified concerns of government paralysis.
