2025年1月18日 · President Michel Aoun (no relation) was solicitous of Hezbollah’s interests. After his term ended in September 2023, Hezbollah insisted on placing its own preferred candidate. When it failed to muster sufficient support in parliament, it turned to filibuster alternatives, vetoing the election of a candidate backed by the Christian-Sunni alliance.

Born in 1933 to a farming family living in a small Maronite village south of Beirut, Michel Aoun attended Christian schools, then, during his military service, studied law at the Lebanese University. He had an active role throughout Lebanon’s war and rose to the position of commander-in-chief of the army in 1984.

2012年6月1日 · Politics makes strange bedfellows as Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (left), a Shiite, joins Michel Aoun, a Christian Maronite and leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, 2006. The two may detest each other personally but find it convenient to ally themselves against the Sunni Arab population of Lebanon.

1983年5月17日 · A mere fifteen minutes before his presidential term was about to expire, Gemayel invited Michel Aoun to form a government; to make matters stranger yet, Gemayel had previously been close to firing Aoun from his position as army commander. Judging from Salem’s anecdotes, jokes play an important role in diplomacy.

2020年1月13日 · Nabih Berri, the Amal movement party leader, is the speaker of a parliament controlled by Hezbollah. Lebanon’s president, Michel Aoun, wouldn’t be president without Hezbollah’s approval, which he first earned in 2006 by allying his Free Patriotic Movement to the Shia terrorist organization.

2025年1月7日 · Until recently, Boulos tilted toward President Michel Aoun’s movement, which in turn aligns with both Hezbollah and Syria’s fallen dictator Bashar al-Assad. Hezbollah’s new leadership now believes they can survive Trump and so will be far less likely to accept defeat.

2013年6月1日 · During the talks leading to the May 2008 Doha agreement, Michel Aoun insisted that the next parliamentary elections be held at the sub-governorate level as per the 1960 electoral law. When the 2009 parliamentary elections did not give the March 8 Coalition a legislative majority, Aoun’s son-in-law, Jubran Bassil, demonized the 1960 electoral ...

1989年10月22日 · The 1975-90 war, by contrast, neither ended with a peace conference nor with a negotiated settlement accepted by most Lebanese. Rather, it ended with another act of war, when Syrian forces joined units of the Lebanese army to oust an interim premier, General Michel Aoun, from office. 2 The impact of the 1975-90 war shook Lebanese society deeply.

2024年10月9日 · In November 2020, the U.S. Department of the Treasury press release detailed how Gibran Bassil, a Maronite Christian and son-in-law of then-President Michel Aoun, channeled money to front companies owned by himself and close family members. Forbes reported Saad Hariri, a Sunni, two-time prime minister and son of assassinated Prime Minister ...

2011年10月17日 · “after General Michel Aoun assumed the presidency of Lebanon in 1988, Phares joined the right-wing coalition known as the Lebanese Front, which consisted of various sectarian groupings and militia. The Front backed Gen. Auon in his struggles against the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad and the Muslims of Lebanon.”