Second cabinet of Khaled Chehab

Second Cabinet of Khaled Chehab

Cabinet of Lebanon
Painting of Khaled Chehab
Date formed30 September 1952 (1952-09-30)
Date dissolved30 April 1953 (1953-04-30)
People and organisations
President
Camille Chamoun
Head of government
Khaled Chehab
No. of ministers
4
Total no. of members
4
History
PredecessorMilitary Cabinet of Fouad Chehab
SuccessorSecond Cabinet of Saeb Salam

The second cabinet led by Khaled Chehab was formed under President Camille Chamoun on 30 September 1952.[1][2] Its establishment occurred in the aftermath of the 1952 crisis in Lebanon.[3] The cabinet was not only given confidence vote, but also power to enforce laws via decree-laws to reform the Lebanese administrative and legislative bodies until February 1953.[4][5]

The period of the cabinet was brief, and it was dissolved on 30 April 1953.[2][6][7] Saeb Salam was given the task to form the next cabinet.[4]

Cabinet members

The cabinet was consisted of four members.[4][8] They were not a member of the Lebanese Parliament.[9]

The cabinet members were as follows:[1][10]

In addition to his premiership Khalid Chehab also held the following posts in the cabinet: minister of interior, minister of justice and minister of information.[10]

On 6 February 1953 Minister of Defense Salim Haidar resigned from the office, and the number of the cabinet members decreased to three.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1952–1954, The Near and Middle East, Volume IX, Part 1 Document 549". Office of the Historian. 26 January 1953. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Elie Salem (Autumn 1967). "Cabinet Politics in Lebanon". The Middle East Journal. 21 (4): 494. JSTOR 4324201.
  3. ↑ J. L. (April 1953). "Peaceful Change in the Lebanon: The 'Rose-Water' Revolution". The World Today. 9 (4): 171. JSTOR 40392618.
  4. 1 2 3 Hani A. Bazzi (1964). The Lebanese Executive between 1934 and 1963 (MA thesis). American University of Beirut. pp. 55–56. ProQuest 2323545294.
  5. ↑ Tarek Abou Jaoude (2021). "Chehabism revisited: the consequences of reform in Lebanon". Middle Eastern Studies. 57 (5): 811. doi:10.1080/00263206.2021.1891891. S2CID 233707775.
  6. ↑ Barry Turner, ed. (2017). The Statesman's Yearbook 2009: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 780. ISBN 978-1-349-74027-7.
  7. ↑ Farid El Khazen (2020). The Breakdown of the State in Lebanon, 1967–1976. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-7556-1816-3.
  8. ↑ Caroline Camille Attie (1996). Lebanon in the 1950s: President Chamoun and Western policy in Lebanon (PhD thesis). University of Texas at Austin. p. 56. ISBN 9798691260339. ProQuest 304273708.
  9. ↑ Caroline Attie (2003). Struggle in the Levant: Lebanon in the 1950s. London; New York: I.B. Tauris. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-85771-710-8.
  10. 1 2 Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 484. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.