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Gen. Emile Lahoud, Who Reunited Shattered Lebanese Armed Forces, Elected Lebanons's 11th President

Gen. Emile Lahoud was unanimously elected on Oct. 15 by Lebanon's parliament as the 11th post-independence president of Lebanon. Of 128 members of parliament, 118, equally divided between Christians and Muslims, voted for the 62-year-old army commander-in-chief.

Lahoud's election was secured after the Lebanese cabinet amended clause three of Article 49 in the Constitution which bars high-ranking civil servants from running for president while they are in office. The government's proposal was then sent to the parliament, which voted to amend Article 49 for "one time only and exceptionally."

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