[5] In August 2024, Alain Aoun left FPM after a dispute with the party leader over his lack of alignments with the parliamentary bloc, like refusing to vote for Jihad Azour in the 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election.

[6] After a professional career spent mainly within the Alcatel group where he held several positions (tendering, construction of telecommunication fixed/mobile networks) in France and abroad, he devoted himself entirely to politics.

His political career began when he joined the FPM from its creation when General Michel Aoun then head of government (1988–1990) launched the War of Liberation against the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.

On 17 August 2015, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil was chosen by Michel Aoun as the new leader of the Free Patriotic Movement.

No elections were done because it could have possibly led to fracturing the party, and so Alain Aoun stepped down from candidacy in order for Bassil to be assigned as the new leader.