Boutros Harb

Boutros Harb (rear RTL بطرسحرب) (born with Tannourine in 1944), is a Politician Lebanon board.

Lawyer, it is elected in 1972 appointed Maronite of Batroun, in the North of the Lebanon. Independent deputy, it is named public Transport and Minister for Labor and Minister for State education and the Art schools in 1979, within the government of Salim El-Hoss; a station which it will occupy until in 1980. It is allocated to the minister of education between 1990 and 1992 in the cabinet of Omar Karamé.

Credit during the negotiation of the agreements of Taëf, its name starts to appear among the présidentiables. It boycotts, as the main part of the Christian personalities and parties, the legislative elections of 1992, but takes share with the elections of 1996, with the end of which it finds its station.

Member of the parliamentary opposition to the governments of Rafiq Hariri, in particular near Nassib Lahoud, Salim El-Hoss, Omar Karamé, Mohammad Youssef Beydoun and Hussein Husseini, it announces his candidature for the presidential election of 1998. But it withdraws it the day of the poll, during which Emile Lahoud is elected unanimously.

After one short period of support for the government of Salim El-Hoss in 1998, it finds the opposition. In 2000, it breaks by surprised its alliance with Nayla Moawad and Omar Karamé and is presented to the elections in alliance with Soleimane Frangié Jr, the Bloc Tripolitain of Mohammad Safadi and Najib Mikati, although nothing bound them politically.

In 2001, it is one of the founding members of the gathering of Kornet Chehwane and strongly expresses its opposition to the policies of the government of Rafiq Hariri and to Syrian hegemony. In 2004, with Nayla Moawad, Omar Karamé, Salim El-Hoss, Hussein Husseini and Albert Mansour, it creates Front National for the Reform. He declares himself the same year candidate with the presidential election then is opposed to the constitutional amendment extending the mandate of President Emile Lahoud. He refuses, in October, to integrate the government of his ally, Karamé, which he considers very prosyrian.

From the autumn 2004, it takes share with the meetings of Bristol-board, gathering the various factions of the opposition anti-Syrian woman and takes share with the Révolution of the cedar which followed the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. It gains the elections of 2005 on the list of the Alliance of March 14th in North and becomes one of the principal candidates of the Majority to the capacity to replace Emile Lahoud with the Presidency of the republic.

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