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For many years, while Michel Aoun was and exiled in Paris and on 14 July 1994, he established the Free Patriotic Movement in what he called "The National Conference". He returned to Lebanon on 7 May 2005 after the Cedar Revolution forced the withdrawal of the Syrian forces, and then contested the legislative elections held in late May in early June although it placed him on the head of the ...
In August 2024, the FPM expelled MP Alain Aoun, the nephew of party founder Michel Aoun, and that same month Ibrahim Kanaan and Simon Abi Ramia announced their resignations from the party, citing disagreement's with Bassil's leadership style. [3] The four MPs went on to form the Independent Consultative Gathering bloc.
Mar Mikhael Agreement (or Mar Mikhael Understanding or memorandum of understanding between the FPM and Hezbollah, Arabic: تفاهم مار مخايل) is a memorandum of understanding signed on 6 February 2006 [1] between the Christian Michel Aoun, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, and the Shiite Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, in the Mar Mikhael Church [2] in Haret Hreik, [3] in ...
In August 2024, Alain Aoun was expelled from FPM for his lack of alignments with the parliamentary bloc, like refusing to vote for Jihad Azour in the 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election. [15] On 7 August 2024, Simon Abi Ramia resigned from the Free Patriotic Movement citing "individualism" within the party and disagreements with its ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday formed the country’s first full-fledged government since 2022. President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the ...
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.
DUBAI (Reuters) -Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized the Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Houthi-owned ...
Alain Joseph Aoun [3] (Arabic: آلان جوزيف عون; born 1971 [1] [2]) is a Lebanese politician and former member of the Strong Lebanon bloc in the Lebanese parliament. He is a telecom engineer and holder of an MBA and a MSc in Finance, and a nephew of Lebanese President Michel Aoun. He has been part of the FPM since its creation. [4]