2014–2016 Lebanese presidential election

An indirect presidential election took place in Lebanon from 23 April 2014 until 31 October 2016. No candidate reached a two-thirds majority vote in the first round, and subsequent rounds failed to gain a quorum. Finally, in the second round of the forty-sixth session held on 31 October 2016, Michel Aoun, a member of parliament and formerly a disputed prime minister and acting president in a rival government near the end of the Lebanese Civil War, was elected with 83 votes by parliament. He took office the same day as the 13th President of Lebanon since independence in 1943.