Elias Hrawi

Élias Hrawi, Elias Hraoui (Arabic الياس الهراوي; * September 4, 1926; † 7 July 2006, Beirut ) was a former President of Lebanon, who was in office from 1989 to 1998. He was the first president who did not come from the heartland of the Maronites in Lebanon Governorate mountain. He was elected on 24 November 1989, two days after the assassination of René Moawad, who was only for 17 days in office. When his term of office expired in 1995, the National Assembly amended the Lebanese constitution to allow Hrawi to remain in office for another three years.

Life

Hrawi was born in Hawch al - Umara in Zahle in the Bekaa Valley in a land -owning Maronitenfamilie. He earned a degree at the Université Saint -Joseph in Beirut. He founded a company exporting fruits and acted mainly with Swiss business partners. When his export business by the Lebanese civil war, which raged from 1975 to 1990, destroyed, he switched to the import of oil.

As the head of a well-known political family Hrawi followed his brothers George and Joseph, as in 1972 he was elected to the National Assembly. From 1980 to 1982 he was under President Elias Sarkis and Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan Minister of Public Works. He focused on the construction of bridges and highways to connect all regions of the country.

In his presidency, the constitutional changes were due to the Taif Agreement, the more power and influence gave the Muslims than before. On October 13, 1990, he forced with the support of the Syrian Army General Michel Aoun, who led a rival government to the task to begin the reconstruction of Lebanon. On May 22, 1991, he signed a contract with Syria in which Lebanon promised that it would not allow the use of its territory against Syrian interests.

The Lebanese are divided on Hrawi. Some admire his determination in the dissolution of the militias and the end of the civil war that had torn the country for 15 years. He was respected for his long -held conviction that loyalty to the nation should have priority over sectarian interests and for referring to a peaceful coexistence between the religious groups in Lebanon. Others, however, have accused because although all Christian and most Muslim militias disbanded, but not Hezbollah, a fundamentalist Shiite militia him of inconsistency. His critics also point out that he was a strong supporter of Syrian interests and that the cooperation agreement has Lebanon into a Syrian colony. He was also criticized for the constitutional amendment that had extended his term by three years; former President Amine Gemayel said at present that such things would undermine the delicate constitutional fabric of the nation and later others have accused him that he has created the precedent for his successors Émile Lahoud, the Syria's request, his tenure in a similar manner by three years extended.

Hrawi was married to Mona Jammal and had three sons (George, Roy and Roland ) and two daughters ( Rina and Zalfa ). He died in hospital the American University of Beirut from cancer.

Swell

Elias Hrawi biography ( contient de nombreuses inexactitudes )
Elias Hrawi biography on MEDEA.be ( précis; les informations proviennent de l' ambassade libanaise à Washington, DC)

President (Lebanon)
Minister (Lebanon)
Member of Parliament (Lebanon)
Carrier of Merit of the Italian Republic ( Grand Cross with chain of orders )
Support of the North Cedar
Born in 1926
Died in 2006
Man

July 7 Guberniya Beqaa Valley Habib Pacha Es-Saad

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