Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-RAhi renewed on Saturday his call for the election of a new head of state, rejecting to let the Lebanese get used to the vacuum at the Baabda Palace.

“There is no justification for not electing a new president,” al-Rahi said during a meeting at the Maronite Diocese of Saint Maron of Sydney in Australia.

The Patriarch headed to Sydney on Thursday on a two-week pastoral visit.

Al-Rahi pointed out that there’s no state that accepts the vacuum that Lebanon is passing through.

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