BEIRUT, May 25 (RIA Novosti) - Lebanon's parliament elected army commander General Michel Suleiman as the country's president on Sunday.
All of Lebanon's warring political leaders earlier agreed to vote for Suleiman under a deal brokered in Qatar on Wednesday to end a 19-month political crisis, which led to the worst violence the country has seen since 1990.
The compromise candidate won 118 votes out of 127 deputies in the parliament.
The political stalemate began in late 2006 when pro-Syrian ministers quit the cabinet of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora during a power struggle. The U.S.-backed government and the Hezbollah-led opposition spent over a year deadlocked and unable to elect a president.
The deal also calls for the formation of a national unity government, in which the opposition will have veto power.
