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BumRushDaShow

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9. It is Lebanon
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 12:40 PM
Jun 30

I remember stumbling on something about this I think last year or the year before but per this - https://web.archive.org/web/20101207190808/http://www.usip.org/publications/lebanons-confessionalism-problems-and-prospects

it was agreed that the President of the Republic was to be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Muslim.


I.e., it was like a "power-sharing" agreement between the religions.

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