Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) received a vote to be Lebanon’s president in a parliamentary election for the position. On Thursday, Lebanon elected its first president in two years — Army Chief Joseph Aoun,

Lebanon has elected a new president after two years of political indecision, but not before some unexpected characters received votes — including Sen. Bernie Sanders, an American Jew.

Aoun, a 60-year-old career soldier, became the fifth Lebanese army commander to be elected as president in Lebanon's history, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the post. Since taking over the army command in 2017,