Lebanon is officially without a president as of Tuesday, after parliament failed to elect a successor to former Lebanese President Michel Aoun, whose six-year term ended on 31 October. The 89-year-old president’s departure left Lebanon with a political power vacuum as the country has neither a president nor an elected government. The Prime Minister has been unable to form a new cabinet and the country is being ruled by a caretaker government without a popular mandate. The situation is unprecedented in Lebanon and it is unclear what powers the cabinet and the parliament have without a head of s…