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
PresidentCamille Chamoun
Head of governmentKhaled Chehab
No. of ministers4
Total no. of members4
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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b Who's Who in Lebanon (19th ed.). Beirut: Publitec Publications. 2007. p. 484. doi:10.1515/9783110945904.476. ISBN 978-3-598-07734-0.