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Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri heads a parliament session in a bid to elect a head of state to fill the vacant presidency, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, June 14, 2023. /Reuters
Lebanon's parliament failed on Wednesday to elect a president for the twelfth time after the post was vacated on October 31, 2022.
Neither Hezbollah-backed candidate Suleiman Frangieh nor former Finance Minister Jihad Azour secured enough votes to win the first round of voting.
The failed vote will deepen sectarian tensions in Lebanon, already mired in one of the world's worst economic crises and facing unprecedented political paralysis with its cabinet only partially empowered and its legislature fractured.
(With input from Reuters)
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