Editing Elections in Lebanon (section)

== Presidential elections ==
Thirty to sixty days before the expiration of a president's term, the speaker of the Chamber of Deputies calls for a special session to [[Indirect election|indirectly elect]] a new president, which selects a candidate for a six-year term on a secret ballot in which a two-thirds majority is required to elect. If no candidate receives a two-thirds majority, a second ballot is held in which only a majority is required to elect. An individual cannot be reelected president until six years have passed from the expiration of his or her first term.<ref name="tom">{{cite book |last1=Collelo |first1=Thomas |url=https://archive.org/details/lebanoncountryst00coll |title=Lebanon: A Country Study |date=1987 |publisher=[[Government Printing Office]] |isbn=0160017319}}{{source-attribution}}</ref><ref name="loc">{{cite web |last1=Saliba |first1=Issam |title=Lebanon: Presidential Election and the Conflicting Constitutional Interpretations |url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/lebanon-election.php |access-date=15 July 2016 |website=loc.gov |publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}{{source-attribution}}</ref>