Rai indicated that the pope and the Secretary of the Vatican Cardinal Pietro Barawlin urged all the Lebanese people as well as the parliamentary blocs to elect a president as soon as possible in a bid to break the country’s alarming deadlock.
Lebanon has been plunged into a presidential vacuum since the mandate of President Michel Sleiman ended in May 2014.
The 35th parliamentary session set to elect a president will take place on February 8 with conflicting reports speculating that it will meet the same fate of its predecessors.