Amin Gemayel

Amin Gemayel (2007)

Amin Gemayel , first name also Amine ( Arabic أمين الجميل Amīn al-Jumayyil , born January 22, 1942 in Bikfaya ), is a Lebanese politician and former President of Lebanon.

Amin Gemayel comes from a Lebanese dynasty of politicians . In 1936 his father Pierre Gemayel founded the Lebanese Kata'ib Party, a right-wing political movement whose militia carried out the Sabra and Shatila massacres during the civil war (1975–1990) .

Today Gemayel is chairman of this party, also known as the "Phalange".

Political career

After studying the law in Beirut , Gemayel was a lawyer . From 1970 to 1982 he was a member of the Lebanese parliament . After the death of his brother Bachir in a bomb attack shortly after his election as Lebanese President , Amin was elected as the new President on September 23, 1982, according to other sources on September 21, 1982.

In 1983 and 1984 he conducted peace talks between the militias who were fighting, but to no avail. His political influence became less afterwards, he was de facto only recognized in the Christian part of the country. At the end of his term of office, the parliament could not agree on a new president as successor, so Gemayel appointed the commander-in-chief of the army Michel Aoun as head of government of the transitional government, which rekindled the civil war.

Exile and return

Amin Gemayel went into exile in France after his tenure, from where he returned to Lebanon in 2000. His son Pierre Gemayel junior , Minister of Industry in Fuad Siniora's cabinet , was assassinated on November 26, 2006 . July 20, 2007 Amin Gemayel announced in the election for the vacant to run for parliamentary seat on 5 August, 2007. In the election, however, he was defeated by his opponent Camille Mansur al-Churi.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Letter to President-elect Amin Gemayel of Lebanon on His Election. (No longer available online.) In: reaganlibrary.archives.gov . September 22, 1982, archived from the original on December 1, 2017 ; accessed on November 18, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Naharnet : Amin Gemayel Enters By-Elections Race , July 20, 2007
3. ^ Deutsche Welle : Narrow success for opposition ( memento of November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), news of August 6, 2007, source: Associated Press

predecessor	Office	successor
Bachir Gemayel	President of the Lebanese Republic 1982–1988	René Moawad