Nassib Lahoud

Nassib Lahoud ( born November 23, 1944 in Baabdat; † February 2nd 2012 in Beirut ) was a Lebanese politician and the nephew of the Lebanese President Émile Lahoud.

Life

Lahoud came from a Christian Lebanese family. After studying engineering in the UK, he was in 1972, the company Lahoud Engineering Co. Ltd.. , Which is mainly active in the Arab Gulf States.

Due to his activities in the background of the negotiations of the Treaty of Taif, he was appointed to the Lebanese Ambassador to the United States. In 1991 he received a seat in the Lebanese Parliament as MP for the Metn region. This mandate he successfully defended in the subsequent elections in 1992, 1996 and 2000. However, he lost his seat in the elections of 2005, when the Free Patriotic Movement (CPL ), the list of home-coming General Michel Aoun, all the mandates of the Metn region could gain for themselves.

From the beginning, Nassib Lahoud -off politically in opposition to the pro-Syrian governments that ruled Lebanon in the 1990s. In particular, he attacked the economic policies of the then Prime Minister Rafiq al -Hariri repeated as socially to be unbalanced. He also voted against the policies imposed by Syria term extensions of Élias Hrawi (1995) and Émile Lahoud ( 2004).

In 2001 he founded together with about 50 other Lebanese intellectuals, the political grouping Democratic Renewal Movement. In the same year he joined the Parliament of the so-called Qurnat - Schahwan collection. These parliamentary grouping consists of independent Christian parliamentarians, and is characterized by its loyalty to the Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch.

After the attack on the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al -Hariri, the Democratic Renewal Movement of the anti-Syrian among others, run by Saad Hariri Courant du Futur, Amin Gemayel Kata'ib concluded "Movement of March 14 " to, Elias Atallahs Democratic Left, the National block from Carlos Eddé, Dory Chamoun National Liberal Party, led by Walid Jumblatt and the progressive Socialist Party members.

Since 1995, Nassib Lahoud was traded as a promising candidate for the office of Lebanese President, for which he stood as a candidate in 2007. In 2008 and 2009 he was Minister of State in the Cabinet Fuad Siniora.

After a long illness he died on 2 February 2012 at the age of 68 years in the Hospital Hôtel Dieu de France in Aschrafiyya district in Beirut.

Lahoud was married and had two children.