Joseph Aoun, kwamandan sojojin Lebanon, ya zama shugaban kasar Lebanon a ranar 9 ga Janairu, 2025, bayan shekaru biyu da rabi na rikici a majalisar dokokin kasar. Aoun, wanda ya samu kuri’u 99 daga cikin 128 na majalisar, ya zama shugaba na 14 na kasar Lebanon, yana maye gurbin Michel Aoun, wanda ba shi da alaka da shi.
An haifi Joseph Aoun a shekara ta 1964 a Sin el-Fil, wani yanki na arewacin birnin Beirut. Ya fara shiga makarantar soja a shekarar 1983 a lokacin yakin basasar Lebanon, kuma ya yi girma a cikin mukamai daban-daban na soja. A shekarar 2017, ya zama kwamandan sojojin Lebanon, inda ya jagoranci ayyukan yaki da ta’addanci, musamman a yankin Ras Baalbek da Qaa a gabashin kasar.
A cikin shekarun da ya yi a matsayin kwamandan sojojin, Aoun ya samu karbuwa a matakin kasa da kasa, inda ya kulla alaka da kasashe kamar Amurka, Saudiyya, da Qatar. Wadannan alakar sun taimaka masa wajen samun goyon baya a matsayin shugaban kasar.
Kamar yadda kasar Lebanon ke fuskacin matsalolin tattalin arziki da siyasa, zaɓen Aoun ya zo ne a lokacin da kasar ke buƙatar shugaba mai ƙarfi. A cikin jawabinsa na rantsar da shi, Aoun ya yi alkawarin sake gina yankunan da Isra'ila ta kai hari, da kuma tabbatar da cewa jihar ce kadai za ta iya riƙe makamai.
Duk da cewa zaɓensa ya kawo ƙarshen rikicin siyasa na tsawon shekaru biyu, har yanzu akwai ƙalubale masu yawa da Aoun zai fuskanta, musamman game da yadda zai magance matsalolin tattalin arziki da kuma yadda zai yi aiki tare da ƙungiyar Hezbollah, wacce ke da makamai masu yawa a kasar.
