National Pact (Lebanon)
The national pact is called an unwritten agreement that was reached in several meetings in 1943 between Béchara el-Khoury , then President of Lebanon , and then Prime Minister of Lebanon, Riad as-Solh . The pact is intended to regulate the distribution of political offices in Lebanon , which gained independence from France in the same year . This distribution is based on the Lebanese census of 1932 . Important agreements in this agreement were, on the one hand, the distribution of the Lebanese parliament in a ratio of 6: 5 from Christians to Muslims. On the other hand, it was regulated that the President is a Maronite Christian , the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of the Parliament a Shiite Muslim . The National Pact was first expressed in a ministerial declaration from Solh on October 7, 1943.
The Lebanese civil war ended in 1989 with the Taif Agreement , in which the distribution of seats in parliament was changed to 1: 1 and the power of the Maronite president was reduced.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Farid el-Khazed: The Comunal Pact of National Identities . 1991, ISBN 1-870552-20-2 , pp. 36 .
- ↑ Farid el-Khazed: The Comunal Pact of National Identities . 1991, ISBN 1-870552-20-2 , pp. 64 .
- ↑ Farid el-Khazed: The Comunal Pact of National Identities . 1991, ISBN 1-870552-20-2 , pp. 38 .