“Likable” and “charismatic”: a video of Joseph Aoun in Baabda generates positive comments

A video of the new President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, speaking on Monday with journalists during the holding of binding parliamentary consultations, made the rounds on social networks and sparked a flood of positive comments.

In this twenty-second video shot at the presidential palace in Baabda, we see Mr. Aoun saluting the work accomplished during the day by journalists and commenting on the situation. “I hope that the formation of the government will be easy, because we have a lot of opportunities to seize abroad. They are waiting for us. I just spoke on the phone with the Italian Prime Minister,” he said.

Elected last Thursday, after more than two years of presidential vacancy, Joseph Aoun, who until then served as commander-in-chief of the Lebanese army, succeeded Michel Aoun whose mandate ended in October 2022.

On X, many Internet users praised the relaxed attitude of the head of state. “He’s so friendly,” writes one user, while another notes that he’s “charismatic.”

Others make the comparison with his predecessor Michel Aoun, who became known for his dry and sometimes scolding tone with journalists. “It’s like waking up from a nightmare. We now have a respectable president who laughs with journalists, we had forgotten that this could happen. Thank you for putting us back on track with a normal life,” says a user of the platform. “He reminds me of (former president) Bachir Gemayel. May Saint Charbel protect him from Iran,” comments a user.

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The video even generated some comments on the considered severe attitude of one of the president’s bodyguards who appears behind him in the video.

Furthermore, another video shot the same day in Baabda and in which the leader of Kataëb Samy Gemayel is questioned by a journalist from the NBN channel, which belongs to the head of Parliament, gave rise to numerous mocking comments. .

“Thousands of Hezbollah martyrs defended the 10,400… How many? that you defend,” says journalist Linda Mechleb, referring to the 10,452 square kilometers that make up the surface area of ​​Lebanon. “The problem is that you don’t even know the figure,” adds Samy Gemayel, disappointed.

“Linda knows the size of Iran”, “It doesn’t matter, she comes from the other side of the Litani”, Internet users joked on X. “What a shame, she doesn’t know the size of the country” , we can still read.