Rachid Solh
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Rachid Solh | |
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رشيد الصلح | |
Takieddine Solh | |
Succeeded by | Nureddine Rifai |
In office 13 May 1992 – 31 October 1992 | |
Preceded by | Omar Karami |
Succeeded by | Rafic Hariri |
Personal details | |
Born | citation needed] Lebanon | 22 June 1926[
Died | 27 June 2014 Lebanon | (aged 88)
Member State of the Arab League |
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Rachid Solh (
Sunni Muslim families in the country that brought several of its members to the office of prime ministers, and that was originally from Sidon but later moved its civil-records to Beirut
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Career
Solh was elected to the
Following the resignation of the government of Omar Karami in May 1992, President Elias Hrawi was forced to form a new government and to hold the first parliamentary elections since the end of the civil war. The elections were boycotted en masse by the main Christian political parties who cited election fraud and corruption, and his term as prime minister lasted only five months. In 1996, Rachid Solh resigned from the Lebanese government and political life. [citation needed]
References
- ^ "Liban: décès de l'ancien Premier ministre Rachid al-Solh – L'Orient-Le Jour". Lorientlejour.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ Lebanese Premier Resigns The Telegraph (16 May 1975)
- JSTOR 3011712.