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REPORT: Patriarch Rai: Lebanese officials awaiting green light from foreign powers to elect new president

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31-10-2014 | 06:58

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REPORT: Patriarch Rai: Lebanese officials awaiting green light from foreign powers to elect new president

Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros Rai said Friday that the Lebanese politicians have not yet elected a president “because they are waiting for the green light from foreign powers.”

“If they do not want a president, it means they do not care about the constitution and the public institutions,” he said from Australia.

The Patriarch headed to Sydney on last Thursday (October 23) on a two-week visit, where he has been visiting Christian communities and meeting with religious figures in several Australian.

Rai’s visit to Australia coincided with fierce fighting in Lebanon between the Army and militants in north Lebanon’s main city of Tripoli, in which at least 23 gunmen were killed and many others were arrested while around 11 army troops were killed.

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