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Lebanon failed to elect a President Tuesday, continuing its drive along the abyss. A new parliamentary session is set for October 23, with the hope that a two-thirds quorum can finally be assembled by then to choose a successor to outgoing President Emile Lahoud. But his term runs out on November 24, and the chances of finding a compromise candidate, sources in Hizballah tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Hizballah Attack U.N. Troops? | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...What that means is that aside from refusing the two-thirds quorum needed to elect a President in parliament, Hizballah is considering an attack on the French U.N. contingent in southern Lebanon. The aim of such a move would no only be to convince the French to stop meddling in Lebanon, but also to serve as a response to France's implicit threat to bomb Iran if Iran does not stop its nuclear development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Hizballah Attack U.N. Troops? | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...hitch in parliament was that the Hizballah-led opposition - which controls over a third of the chamber's deputies - boycotted the proceedings, preventing the country's majority from having the two-thirds quorum necessary to move to a vote. But the larger problem is that the country's factions are locked in a struggle that has become part of the regional struggle for Middle East supremacy, with Syria and Iran on one side and American and Israel on the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: In Search of a President | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

...week, through his lawyer, Musharraf promised the Supreme Court that he would step down as chief of the army if he were elected. Many opposition politicians interpreted that as a threat: if he is not reelected, by whatever reason, be it a Supreme Court injunction, or a lack of quorum in Parliament brought about by a mass resignation, the declaration of martial law would be the next step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf's Sign of Weakness | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...legislators in either of two rounds of voting. But if the vote is forced to a third round, a simple majority suffices to elect a candidate - provided enough legislators show up to vote. Gul's candidacy failed in April because opposition parties stayed away and denied parliament a quorum. That is unlikely to happen this time. A member of the opposition Nationalist Action Party promised Tuesday that his party will turn out to vote, no matter what, and that would ensure the requisite two-thirds quorum. Analysts expect the vote to go to a third round, at which point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Brink in Turkey? | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

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