(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) irut April 23 - Lebanon's parliament has failed to elect a new president in succession to Lebanese President Michel Suleiman's term ends on May 25 . The parliamentary session began at noon on Wednesday. No candidate succeeded in getting the minimum 86 votes or a two-thirds majority needed to win the presidency. All the MPs filed out after the ballots were counted preventing a quorum for a second round of voting. According to the Lebanese constitution a candidate needs only 51 per cent of votes in the second round to win the presidency. The next session to elect a president will be held on April 30. The election was the first opportunity to produce a president without the influence of Syrian authorities since Syria ended its nearly 30-year military presence in Lebanon in 2005. But Wednesday's vote was not a significant milestone as suggested by Mario Abou Zeid an analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center a policy research institute in downtown Beirut. "The Lebanese presidential election will be strictly tied to the Syrian presidential election taking into account the current dynamics regarding the Syrian conflict" Abou Zeid said. "Any future president of Lebanon should have good ties with Syria."
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