Beirut, May 23: Lebanon's parliament speaker Nabih Berri announced Thursday that the session to elect army commander Michel Suleiman as the next president would be held Sunday. Berri's office said in a statement that the session would convene at 5 pm (1400 GMT).

The Doha accord which was brokered Wednesday between Lebanon's rival leaders will see Suleiman elected as president, the formation of a unity government in which the opposition has veto power and a new electoral law for next year's parliamentary election. Parliament has failed to meet 19 times to elect a president due to differences between the opposition-led Hezbollah and the western-backed ruling majority led by Prime Minister Fouad Seniora. Lebanon has been without a president since November 2007 after pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud's term ended.