Editing Politics of Lebanon (section)

==Executive branch==
[[File:Grand-Serail.jpg|thumb|The Grand Serail, also known as the Government Palace, is the headquarters of the [[prime minister of Lebanon]]]]
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|[[President of Lebanon|President]]
|[[Joseph Aoun]]
|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|9 January 2025
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|[[Prime Minister of Lebanon|Prime Minister]]
|[[Nawaf Salam]]
|[[Independent (politician)|Independent]]
|8 February 2025
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|[[List of Speakers of the Parliament of Lebanon|Speaker of the Parliament]]
|[[Nabih Berri]]
|[[Amal Movement]]
|20 October 1992
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The [[List of Presidents of Lebanon|president]] is elected by the [[Parliament of Lebanon|Parliament]] for a six-year term. They cannot be reelected again until six years have passed from the end of their first term.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/lebanon-election.php#f4|title=Lebanon: Presidential Election and the Conflicting Constitutional Interpretations|author=Issam Michael Saliba|publisher=US Library of Congress|date=October 2007|access-date=13 May 2014}}</ref> The [[List of Prime Ministers of Lebanon|prime minister]] and deputy prime minister are appointed by the president in consultation with the Parliament. The president is required to be [[Maronite Christianity in Lebanon|a Maronite]], the prime minister [[Sunni Islam in Lebanon|a Sunni]], and [[List of speakers of the Parliament of Lebanon|the speaker]] of the Parliament [[Shi'a Islam in Lebanon|a Shi'a]]. See [[Third Cabinet of Najib Mikati|list]] of the ministers and their political affiliation for a list of ministers.

This confessional system is based on 1932 census data, which showed the Maronite Christians as having a substantial majority of the population. The Government of Lebanon continues to refuse to undertake a new census.

===President===
{{main|President of Lebanon}}
Lebanon operates under a parliamentary system, where the president has a wide range of reserve powers but is largely symbolic. The president is not accountable to Parliament, unless for treason, and is elected by the Parliament with a two-thirds majority. The president has the sole power to appoint the prime minister, and may {{Citation needed span|dismiss them at any point, without input from the Chamber of Deputies,|date=November 2024}} which can force the president to resign.<ref name="Boell2014">{{cite web|url=https://lb.boell.org/en/2014/07/04/caught-between-constitution-and-politics-presidential-vacuum-lebanon|title=Caught between constitution and politics: the presidential vacuum in Lebanon|website=Heinrich Böll Stiftung Middle East|access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref>

Following the end of the [[Lebanese Civil War]], the president lost some powers to the [[Council of Ministers of Lebanon|Council of Ministers]] through the [[Taif Agreement]]. Being the sole person who appoints it, however, they ''de facto''{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} still retain all, or most, of their pre-Taif powers.