Jan. 11 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Hussein el Husseini, former president of the Lebanese Parliament and promoter of the 1989 Taif Agreement that ended the civil war in Lebanon, died this Wednesday at the age of 85 after suffering health complications from a severe flu.
“Husein el Husseini marked the legislative field in Lebanon for many years. He played a crucial role in the adoption of the Taif Agreement that ended the civil war in Lebanon,” interim Prime Minister Nayib Mikati recalled in a statement. picked up by the NNA news agency.
El Huseini, who died around 6:00 a.m. (local time), had been hospitalized since January 3 in intensive care at a private hospital in the capital, Beirut, after complications in his health due to severe flu.
The former president of the Lebanese Parliament, in addition to presiding over the Taif Agreement, was co-founder of the Lebanese Shiite Amal party and succeeded Imam Musa al Sadr as leader of the party until 1980. The current president of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, who succeeded in the office of El Husseini in 1992, has mourned his death.
“The country has just lost an incalculable man and legislator,” said Berri, who is also the leader of Amal. In addition, he has added that he “devoted his life to defending the country, its people and its national identity”, reported the newspaper ‘L’Orient Le Jour’.
The burial of the former Lebanese president, for whom three days of official mourning have been decreed in the country starting this Wednesday — the flags will fly at half mast — will take place next Thursday, January 12.
