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Aoun, a 60-year-old career soldier, became the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected as president in Lebanon's history, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the post.
Joseph Khalil Aoun (Arabic: جوزيف خليل عون, born 10 January 1964) is a Lebanese general who has served as the 14th Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017. He began his career in the Lebanese Army in 1983, and was steadily promoted until he reached the rank of Brigadier General in 2013.
One of the most influential Christian parties in the country, the Free Patriotic Movement of former President Michel Aoun — no relation to the current president — opposed his candidacy. And the Lebanese Forces party gave him their endorsement only the night before the election. Some have argued that Joseph Aoun’s election violated the law.
Lebanon’s Parliament on Thursday elected the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as its president, ending a two-year deadlock and power vacuum at the top of the country’s political power ...
The commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, Joseph Aoun (no close relation to Michel), [2] was elected president in the second round of voting of the thirteenth parliamentary session on 9 January 2025, securing 99 votes. He took office on the same day while keeping his position as the commander of the Lebanese Forces, becoming the 14th ...
Aoun's 2018 salary was around $1.5–1.8 million dollars. [6] In spring 2020, Aoun announced he would donate 20% of his annual salary (~$290,000) to new funds meant to support students facing economic hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and to support research programs related to the crisis. [7] In 2021, his salary reached $2.7 ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament voted Thursday to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The vote came weeks after a tenuous ceasefire agreement halted a 14-month conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and at a time when Lebanon’s leaders are ...
Lebanon's parliament extended on Friday by one-year the term of army commander Joseph Aoun, avoiding a vacuum in leadership in an institution seen as vital to keeping peace inside the country amid ...