Addition of a paragraph to Article 49 of the Constitution

Type

Law

Number

687

Date of the text

13/10/1998

Official Gazette

published in 1998

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

2

What it provides

This constitutional law adds a one-time exceptional provision to Article 49 of the Constitution allowing the President of the Republic to be elected from among judges and first-grade civil servants and their equivalents in public administrations and institutions, effective upon publication.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1998. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.