Prominent Politician and ex-Minister Fouad Butros Dies at 95
Former minister and prominent politician Fouad Butros passed away on Sunday at the age of 95, state-run National News Agency reported.
Butros served as a minister under late presidents Fouad Chehab, Charles Helou and Elias Sarkis. He was most notably known for his role as foreign minister during Sarkis' tenure.
The ex-minister's most recent political activity was his suggestion of a hybrid electoral law that mixes the proportional representation and winner-takes-all systems.
The famous draft law has become colloquially known as the Fouad Butros Law.
Butros had published his autobiography in 2009 in a book released by Dar An-Nahar.
Y.R.
over 9 years
It was the era that shaped what Lebanon is now....
It's a pity we are where we are now...
It was a disaster that none of our old politicians were wise enough to avoid...
Crap leaders are the making of a crap people ...
over 9 years
We had Fouad Butros as Foreign Minister.... and now we have Jibran Bassil.
over 9 years
Great Lebanese (Politicians, Singers, Businessmen, etc.) are aging and dying and for every great person dying a dozen Jihadists are born. It goes to shw the end of the Great Lebanon that once was. Thanks to Israel, Syria, Iran and KSA ..... they all ensured in one way or another the demise of the great Lebanon. RIP Mr. Fouad Botros
over 9 years
@helicopter
So true I could not have said it better
Mr Minister RIP
Unfortunately another man who made Lebanon what it is now