Could the IMF’s MENA chief become Lebanon’s next president?

IMF’s Azour for president? Lebanon’s two largest Christian political parties — the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement — are lobbying for Jihad Azour, the IMF director for the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, to become the country’s next president, reports Bloomberg. Azour declined Bloomberg’s request for comment on the matter. Lebanon is in the midst of a financial and political crisis and has been without a president since October when Michel Aoun’s term ended.