BEIRUT: A top French official will visit the Vatican next week for talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai regarding the Lebanese presidential election crisis, local daily An-Nahar reported Thursday.
The report said French presidential envoy Jean-Francois Girault will head to the Vatican Monday for a meeting with Rai to discuss the election deadlock.
An-Nahar said the French envoy will possibly meet officials of the Holy See for consultations on the presidential crisis.
Lebanon has been without a head of state since May when President Michel Sleiman’s term expired with lawmakers failing to elect a successor due to lack of consensus.
Girault Wednesday held a new round of talks for the second consecutive day with rival Lebanese factions on how to end the political deadlock that has left Lebanon without a president for more than eight months.
The French envoy, however, has apparently failed to make any breakthrough in the presidential crisis following talks with leaders on both sides of the political divide as the March 8 and March 14 parties stood firm on their support for rival candidates.
Sources from both camps agreed that local as well as regional and international factors were blocking the election of a new president.
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