BEIRUT: Politicians have no excuse for procrastinating over the election of a new Lebanese president, Maronite Beshara Rai said Saturday, accusing political parties of relying on external powers for directions.

“Today we are experiencing a sort of political death that controls our destiny as a people, and the destiny of the state,” Rai said in his fifth Easter message. “There is no constitutional excuse to boycott the presidential election sessions … or hesitate in taking any tangible initiative to exit the vacuum situation.”

“It seems that everyone is waiting for the signal from outside.”

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