By Xinhua,
Beirut : Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday set May 13 as a new schedule date for electing anew president, local ANB reported.
“Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri decided to set Tuesday, May 13,a new date for a session to elect the president of Lebanon…” a statement from the parliament was quoted as saying.
Berri, on Tuesday, postponed a parliamentary session to elect Lebanon’s president, without setting the exact date of the next session.
“I will wait the results of the calls for national dialogue to set another date,” Berri said in a statement at parliament headquarters in Downtown Beirut.
It is the 18th postponement since Sept. 25.
Lebanon is facing the most complicated political crisis since 1975-1990 civil war. Lebanese political rival groups were unable to achieve a breakthrough to elect a new president for the country, which has been without a president since Nov. 24 when ex-president Lahoud ended his term.
Lebanese leaders agreed on Suleiman as a consensus candidate, but could not agree on the shape of the new government or the new election law.
The presidency deadlock deepened the Lebanese political crisis as fears are mounting that failure in reaching a deal on the presidential candidate could result in more violence in the country.