Lebanon's Parliament today elected former general Michel Aoun President, ending a vacuum and political stalemate of more than two years.<br/><br/> After four rounds of voting, Aoun won support from 83 lawmakers, easily clearing the 50-per cent-plus-one majority required. <br/><br/>The final tally included 36 blank votes and eight void ballots.<br/><br/>Aoun, 81, failed to achieve the two-thirds majority necessary to win a first round of voting, and a second round was repeated twice after the number of votes exceeded the 127 MPs present in the session.<br/><br/>But the former army chief's victory had been all but assured after two longstanding political rivals offered him their support.<br/><br/>Aoun's election ends a vacancy for the post since May 2014, when his predecessor Michel Sleiman's mandate ended. <br/><br/>The country's deeply divided political powers were repeatedly unable to reach consensus on a candidate for President, a post reserved in Lebanon for a Maronite Christian and elected by Parliament.