BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam Tuesday warned that the yearlong presidential vacuum is threatening the country’s existence, as Christian March 14 lawmakers lobbied for the Maronite patriarch’s support to reduce the quorum required for an electoral Parliament session. The development came a day after Lebanon marked the one-year anniversary of the presidential vacuum with no solution in sight amid Parliament’s repeated failure since April last year to choose a president over a lack of quorum.

Addressing the Lebanese on the one-year anniversary of the presidential deadlock, Salam warned that the continued vacuum in the top Christian post put the country’s very existence into jeopardy and caused heavy damage to Lebanon’s sectarian coexistence formula.

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