2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election

On 29 September 2022, an indirect election for the Lebanese presidency was initiated to determine the successor of term-limited incumbent Michel Aoun, who took office on 31 October 2016. On 9 January 2025, Joseph Aoun (no relation to Michel), who had been serving as the Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 9 March 2017, secured 99 votes to win the presidential election in the second round of the 13th parliamentary session. He took office on the same day, becoming the country's 14th president and the fifth military commander to assume the role.

Under Article 49 of the Lebanese constitution, in the first round of an electoral session, a qualified majority of two-thirds of the members of the Lebanese parliament is required to elect the president. If no candidate reaches that threshold, then further rounds of voting are held, where an absolute majority of all members of parliament is sufficient to elect the president. The years-long process for this election was not without precedent; the previous election took 46 sessions with multiple rounds from 2014 to 2016. In accordance with the country's National Pact, the presidency is always held by a Maronite Christian. The incumbent president is only eligible for re-election to a second non-consecutive term.

The 2022–2025 presidential election marked the first time since 1958 that Lebanon completed an electoral process free of interference from neighbouring Syria, which routinely meddled in Lebanese internal affairs from the 1963 Syrian coup d'état until the 2024 collapse of the Ba'athist regime, including directly during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon between 1976 and 2005.