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Lebanese National Pact

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Date:
1943
Location:
Lebanon

Lebanese National Pact, power-sharing arrangement established in 1943 between Lebanese Christians and Muslims whereby the president is always a Maronite Christian and the prime minister a Sunni Muslim. The speaker of the National Assembly must be a Shiʿi Muslim. Amendments proposed in the Ṭāʾif Accord that helped end the Lebanese Civil War transferred many presidential powers to a cabinet divided evenly between Christians and Muslims.

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