Pierre Daccache

Pierre Daccache (born in 1928) is a Lebanese politician.

Doctor considered for his generosity and his infallible ethics, at the same time titular of a license of philosophy and a doctorate in sociology, it is elected appointed Maronite of Baabda in 1972. In 1992, for the first legislative elections according to war, it calls with the boycott, like the main part of the Christian personalities and forces at the time.

In 1995, it declares its candidature for the Presidency of the republic to be opposed to the Syrian dictat. But the elections do not take place and the mandate of President Elias Hraoui is extended for a further three years. In 1995, he is the only politician Chrétien or different who has courage under Syrian occupation to refuse the established fact, against all the Lebanese political community of the time.

In 1996, it finds its seat at the Parliament, following an electoral alliance with the Hezbollah. He is opposed to the policies of the government of Rafiq Hariri. In 2000, again allied the Hezbollah, Talal Arslan, Elie Hobeika and with the nationalist Left social Syrian, it fails to be made elect, vis-a-vis the supported candidates by Walid Joumblatt, Rafiq Hariri and Amine Gemayel.

In 2005, it is on the list of the Free patriotic current of Michel Aoun and of the Lebanese Democratic party of Talal Arslan that he faces the ballot boxes, without success, beaten once again by the candidates of the Alliance of March 14th, paradoxically supported by the Hezbollah.

The death of the deputy of the Lebanese Forces Edmond Naïm in January 2006 started again its parliamentary career. To replace Naïm, its candidature was proposed by Michel Aoun and it was supposed to have also the support of the Hezbollah. The Alliance of March 14th evoked during some time to introduce a candidate to face him, either Dory Chamoun or the journalist May Chidiac, but in the final analysis gives up it. A consensus is reached between Aoun, Samir Geagea and Walid Joumblatt, and Pierre Daccache is elected of office and seat since at the Parliament like independent deputy.

In January 2007, Daccache launches with a Lebanese group of politicians, among whom the former ministers Alain Tabourian and Youssef Salamé, the deputy Abdallah Hanna and the former ambassador Fouad Turk, an independent political regrouping, called the Moultaqa (the meeting place). This gathering intends to promote the vision of a Lebanon tolerant and convivial and exits with the political crisis which shakes the country in particular since the end of the war of the summer 2006.

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