Rachid Solh

Rachid Solh (also Raschid Solh ; Arabic رشيد الصلح, DMG Rašīd aṣ-Ṣulḥ , born June 22, 1926 ; † June 27, 2014 ) was a Lebanese politician and former prime minister as well as a member of one of the most influential Sunni - Muslim families in the country.

Life

Solh was first elected to the Lebanese National Assembly as a member of parliament from Beirut in 1960. On October 31, 1974, the then President of Lebanon, Suleiman Frangieh , appointed Rachid Solh Prime Minister. Solh resigned from his post on May 15, 1975, a few weeks after the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war .

After the end of the war and the resignation of the government of Omar Karami in May 1992, President Élias Hrawi was forced to form a new government under Rachid Solh on May 13 and hold the first parliamentary elections since the end of the civil war. These elections were boycotted en masse by the main Christian political parties who accused the electoral process of fraud and corruption; his tenure as prime minister lasted only five months (until October 31, 1992). In 1996, Rachid Solh also resigned from the Lebanese government and political life in general.

Web links

• Rachid el-Solh (1926-2014)
• Former Lebanese PM Rashid al-Solh passes away at 88 ( Ya Libnan , June 29, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Liban: décès de l'ancien Premier ministre Rachid al-Solh. In: L'Orient-Le Jour , June 27, 2014.
2. ↑ Lebanese Premier Resigns. In: The Telegraph . May 16, 1975. Retrieved July 4, 2013 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Yusif Haytham: Lebanon Explodes: "Battles of Survival" . In: MERIP Reports . 44, February 1976, pp. 3-14. JSTOR 3011712 .