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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningSelim al-HossFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchSelim al-HossLebanonThis article is part of the series:Politics and government ofLebanonConstitutionPresidentEmile LahoudPrime MinisterFouad SinioraPresent governmentParliamentSpeakerPolitical partiesElectionsGovernoratesDistrictsForeign relationsOther countries #160;• #160;Politics #160;Portalview • talk • editSelim Ahmed al-Hoss (Arabic: Óáíã ÃÍãÏ ÇáÍÕ) (born 1929) is a veteran Lebanese politician. He was a Prime Minister of Lebanon and a longtime Member of Parliament representing his hometown, Beirut.Contents1 Education2 Political Career2.1 Al-Hosss Second Term3 External link[edit]EducationAl-Hoss received his undergraduate degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a PhD in business and economics from Indiana University in the United States. He is known as a technocrat.[edit]Political CareerAl-Hoss, a Sunni Muslim, served as prime minister of Lebanon three times. The first was from 1976 until 1980 during the first years of the Lebanese Civil War. His second, and most controversial term, was from 1987 until 1990. Al-Hoss served as prime minister again from December 1998 to October 2000.After losing his parliamentary seat to an unknown candidate in the Parliamentary elections of 2000, a frail Al-Hoss resigned as Prime Minister declaring an end to his political career.In March 2005, he was considered as a candidate to form a new government following the resignation of Omar Karami (Prime Minister again), but he reportedly refused to accept the position for health reasons, and Karami was subsequently reappointed.During his last two terms as prime minister, he was also foreign minister.He is a member of the anti-imperalist conference Axis for Peace.[edit]Al-Hosss Second TermFrom January to September 1988, he boycotted meetings of his own Cabinet, in protest against the policies of President, Amine Gemayel. On 22 September of that year, he refused to accept his dismissal in favour of General Michel Aoun, a Maronite Christian. The crisis was precipitated by the failure of the National Assembly to elect a new president (a post traditionally reserved for a Maronite). Since the Lebanese constitution states that in such a situation the outgoing president appoints a prime minister to temporarily act as president during the course of a presidential vacancy, outgoing president Gemayel decided to appoint Maronite army commander Michel Aoun to that office, notwithstanding the tradition of reserving it for a Sunni Muslim. Al-Hoss refused to concede the prime ministers post to Aoun so the two ended up heading rival administrations; with Aoun occupying the presidential palace at Baabda, al-Hoss set up his own office in Muslim-dominated West Beirut.Lebanon was thus left with no President and two rival governments. However, because Syria -- who at the time occupied much of Lebanon -- supported Al-Hoss, and because Al-Hosss
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