Ibrahim Kanaan

Ibrahim Youssef Kanaan (Arabic: إبراهيم كنعان, born in 1962[1]) is a Lebanese Maronite[1] lawyer, politician and former member of parliament of the Strong Lebanon bloc (of the Free Patriotic Movement).

[1] Commander of the Army Leader of FPM President of Lebanon2016–2022 Une certaine vision du Liban

His political activism started since the beginning of Michel Aoun's political journey, even before the creation of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), when he used to meet Aoun at the Baabda Palace, as a young lawyer, and started lobbying for the ideas of freedom from the Syrian occupation in Lebanon and also with outside organizations from France, Geneva and UK.

[2][1] He left the country a few weeks before the 13 of Oct 1990 Syrian invasion of the Baabda Palace took place, as those who spoke against the Syrians were prosecuted, so stayed in London where he got an offer from a law firm and then he started to lobby for Lebanon from within the Lebanese community in London.

On June 7, 2009, he was re-elected MP for the constituency the third consecutive time in Metn, on the list of the Change and Reform Bloc, obtaining the greatest number of votes and became head of the parliamentary Budget and Financial Affairs Commission.