Former army chief Michel Aoun was sworn in as Lebanon's 13th president on Monday, ending a vacancy that lasted almost two and a half years.
Aoun, an 81-year-old Christian, was elected president earlier on Monday in the Lebanese parliament.
Lebanon had been without a president since May 2014, when former President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ended.
Since then, parliament had held 45 failed sessions to elect a successor, each time failing to make quorum.
The parliament convened under Speaker Nabih Berri and was a full-house with 127 MPs of the 128-seat parliament present for the 46th electoral round.
Berri declared the constitutionally required quorum was met and called for the first round of the election in which the president should obtain two-thirds of votes.
However, after counting the votes of the first round, Aoun obtained only 84 votes while 36 MPs cast blank votes. Six votes were called void and one vote went to MP Gilberte Zouein.
Berri called for a second round of voting in which Aoun obtained 83 votes. Eighty-six votes were blank and 7 votes void while MP Setrida Geagea received one vote.
Berri declared Aoun as the 13th president of the Republic of Lebanon and called on the president-elect to be sworn in.
Aoun is allied with the Iran-backed Hezbollah party whose forces are fighting in Syria alongside forces of the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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