BEIRUT: The constitution should be the base of any solution for the now one-year-old Lebanese presidential crisis, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai said Sunday.
“The way to elect a president is by returning to the constitution in any initiative,” Rai said during Sunday mass.
“We pray that political officials would return to the truth of the constitution and the National Pact to fulfill their duties in finding an exit from the [presidential] vacuum.”
Rai’s comments came in light of a recent proposal by Free Patriotic Movement Michel Aoun in which the first suggestion was electing a president through a popular vote, which would require constitutional amendments.