Mounir Al-Hajj

Mounir Al-Hajj is a politician Lebanon board, who integrated young person the party Kataëb. He was member of his political office during many years and a collaborator close relation of his founder, Pierre Gemayel. In 1991, it was one of the deputies who were named at the Lebanese Parliament following the Accords of Taëf to fill the vacant seats and to obtain the parity of seat between Christian and Moslem deputies. It obtains the seat Maronite of Metn which since 1970 occupied the former President of the Republic Amine Gemayel. In 1992, Kataëb decided to boycott the legislative elections and Hajj lost its seat.

It reached the presidency of the Kataëb party in 1999 after the death of the former chief of the party, Georges Saadeh. The election of Hajj coincides with the growing influence of the services Syria NS within this party. Hajj approached the currents pro-Syrians then and posted a support for the President of the Republic recently elected, the General Emile Lahoud. This bringing together with the pro-Syrians made it possible Mounir Al-Hajj to be included on the electoral roll of the powerful Deputy Prime Minister for the time, Michel Murr, for the legislative elections of 2000 in Metn. Hajj lost the elections and was eliminated with another fellow candidate Maronite, by the deputies Nassib Lahoud and by Pierre Amine Gemayel, wire of the former president, who launched a " Réformateur" movement; in margin of the Kataëb party, opposed to the line pro-Syrian woman of the political office. The defeat of Hajj is also to charge to its alliance against-nature with the personalities pro-Syrian women more in sight, and this against the tradition souverainist of the militants, particularly the electoral alliance with the Parti social nationalist Syrian, eternal enemy of Kataëb.

Following this electoral rout, the majority of the members of the political office of the party started to claim her resignation. It retained only the support of the Kataëb deputy elected on the list of the Hezbollah, Nader Succar. The party fissured then and two dissenting factions developed. The first supported Amine Gemayel, the former President who returned of exile in June 2000 and which ambitionnait to take again the control of the party rested by his/her father. The second was carried out by Karim Pakradouni, at the time vice-president of Kataëb, with which Syriens entrusted them to take the head of the party, after to be disappointed lack of leadership of Hajj. Diatribles violent ones and insults fused then in the media between Pakradouni and Hajj but the two men were suddenly combined in 2001 to amend of the party and to draw aside the partisans of Amine Gemayel from them, in order to ensure the election of Karim Pakradouni as a successor of Hajj; an election which took place in 2002.

Since, Mounir Al-Hajj was withdrawn from the political life and took again its activities of lawyer.

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