Elias Sarkis
Elias Sarkis (Arabic إلياس سركيس; * July 20, 1924, † 27 June 1985) was President of Lebanon By 1976 until 1982.
The Maronite Christian was born the son of a police officer in Schabbaniah and graduated in law at the Jesuit -led Université Saint- Joseph of Beirut in 1948 from. He joined in 1953, the legal Corps and was appointed during the administration of President Fuad Chehab to the legal director of the Presidential Office in Baabda that the reform and compensation policy of Chehabismus followed it. In 1962 he became general manager for presidential affairs, ie Director of the President. After the banking crisis of 1968, Sarkis was appointed governor of the Central Bank, the Banque du Liban appointed.
Sarkis ran in 1970 as Chehabs protege for president and his victory had been expected, but due to a change of opinion of several deputies to the National Assembly under the leadership of Kamal Jumblatt ( Joumblatt ), the Druze leader of the Socialist Progressive Party, he was appointed by Suleiman Frangieh with one voice projection beaten. Sarkis, however, was elected on 8 May 1976 for the President when the Lebanese civil war was raging. Since the armed forces of Syria at the request Frangiehs and with a mandate from the Arab League had occupied two-thirds of the country and most of the rest was controlled by militias, his power was very limited. Just before the end of his presidency in 1982, invaded Israel in southern Lebanon and moved under the command of Ariel Sharon to the outskirts of Beirut before.
Sarkis was replaced by the elected on 21 August 1982 by a rump parliament under Israeli supervision militia leader Bachir Gemayel of the right-wing Christian Phalange Party ( Kataeb ), of an attack on the Beirut Falange headquarters fell victim to nine days before his scheduled inauguration. Meanwhile, older brother Amine Gemayel was subsequently selected as President, and Sarkis gave up office on 23 September 1982.
Sarkis died in 1985 in Switzerland at the age of 61 years. He was not married.
Before independence: Charles Debbas | Habib Pacha El- Saad | Émile Eddé | Georges Naccache | Ayub Thabit | Petro Trad | Émile Eddé
After independence: Béchara el- Khoury | Camille Chamoun | Fouad Chehab | Charles Helou | Suleiman Frangieh | Elias Sarkis | Bachir Gemayel | Amin Gemayel | René Moawad | Élias Hrawi | Émile Lahoud | Michel Sleiman
- President (Lebanon)
- Lebanese
- Born in 1924
- Died in 1985
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