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Lebanon’s new president, Joseph Aoun, who has been head of the country’s army since 2017, has began parliamentary consultations to designate a prime minister tasked with forming a government in Lebanon.

Lebanese prime minister, Najib Mikati, who has led the country in a caretaker capacity throughout the presidential vacuum and is backed by the Hezbollah-led alliance, and Nawaf Salam, a favourite of anti-Hezbollah lawmakers who is the presiding judge at the international court of justice in The Hague, are reported frontrunners.

The main task for Aoun is to reassert the role of the Lebanese army, particularly in south Lebanon, where since the late 1970s the army’s control has been contested by groups such as the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Hezbollah.

Speaking before parliament after his election, Aoun vowed to “confirm the state’s right to monopolise the carrying of weapons” and emphasised the army’s right to control the country’s borders.

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