Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday postponed a parliamentary session to elect Lebanon's president scheduled on Tuesday till June 10, the official National News Agency reported.
The Parliamentary session for electing a new president scheduled on May 13 was previously postponed from April 22, the report quoted a statement from Berri as saying.
It is the 19th postponement since Sept. 25 last year.
The postponement came when Lebanon's political crisis boiled to deadly clashes between pro and anti-government supporters, which left at least 72 people dead and about 200 others injured.
The clashes broke out last Wednesday after the Lebanese cabinet decided Tuesday to cease the private communication network of Hezbollah, and remove airport security chief Gen. Wafik Shqaier for alleged links to Hezbollah.
Lebanon is facing the most complicated political crisis since1975-1990 civil war. Lebanese political rival groups were unable to achieve a breakthrough to elect a new president for the country since Nov. 24 last year when ex-president Emile Lahoud ended his term.
Lebanese leaders have agreed on Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman as a consensus candidate, but could not agree on the shape of the new government or the new election law.
Source:Xinhua
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