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Sleiman Frangieh, France's controversial runner for Asian president
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Suleiman Franjieh; Lebanese Leader
BEIRUT — Suleiman Franjieh, the last of a generation of Christian warlords and the president of Lebanon when it disintegrated into civil war, died Thursday at the age of 82.
A spokesman for American University Hospital, where Franjieh died, said he had been admitted July 2 and had been in fragile health for several years.
Franjieh was among the zaims , or feudal lords, who largely controlled Lebanon after independence from France in 1943.
He was chief of a powerful Maronite Catholic clan in the mountains of northern Lebanon and was reputed to have ordered the slayings of hundreds of people over the years.
Known as “the Sphinx” because of his distaste for small talk, the chain-smoking Franjieh had a private army, the 5,000-strong Marada, or Giants.
Unlike most Maronites, who are allied with Israel, Franjieh was supported largely by Syria. In Lebanon’s civil war, he sided with right-wing Christians against Palestinian guerrillas and leftist Muslim factions.
Franjieh was elected president in August, 1970, and some think his corruption-ridden government and use of force against political opponents accelerated the country’s slide toward civil war.
Franjieh spent his early life in the shadow of his older brother, Hamid, a membe
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Lebanon’s political power clans pass their assembly seats to the next generation
BEIRUT: Nine years have passed since the last election in Lebanon, and voters could be forgiven for being excited to see some fresh young faces standing to win seats in a Parliament dominated by aging men.
But in many cases the names, and what they stand for, are all too familiar.
Nearly a quarter of the 128 seats are expected to be passed on from an older relative to another member of the family, as the country’s politics of clans and dynasties shows little sign of fading. Of these, 19 candidates are standing for seats currently held by a father or mother.
For many of Lebanon’s most powerful families, a seat in Parliament is seen as part of their inheritance.
“Our politicians are dealing with the parliamentary seat as a piece of private property, which can be inherited within the family,” said Zeina Al-Helou, the former secretary general of the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections.
“The son — or daughter — will remain on the same political track as their parents, which turns the issue into the monopolization of politics by a number of families.”
In total, 31 seats for the May election are being contested by a child of the MP already representing that constituency. The length of th