{{short description|Lebanese politician and lawyer}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Georges Adwan | native_name = {{lang|ar|جورج عدوان}} | image = Georges Adwan LB parliament (cropped).jpg | office = [[Members of the 2018–22 Lebanese Parliament|Member of the Lebanese Parliament]] | constituency = [[Chouf District]] (from 28 June 2005) | term_start = 28 June 2005 | predecessor = | term_end = | successor = | office1 = Leader Of [[Al-Tanzim|Al-Tanzim Resistance]] | term_start1 = 1969 | term_end1 = 1990 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = Secretary General of the [[Lebanese Forces]] | term_start2 = 1978 | term_end2 = 1989 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | office3 = Vice-Chairman of the [[Lebanese Forces]] | term_start3 = 2005 | term_end3 = | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | alt = Formal portrait of George Adwan | party = [[Lebanese Forces]] | birth_name = George Adwan | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|09|15}} | birth_place = [[Deir al-Qamar]], [[Chouf District]] | spouse = | children = | website = | education = [[Law]], [[Saint Joseph University|Saint Joseph University, Beirut]]<br>Masters in [[International law]], [[University of Strasbourg]] | signature = Georges Adwan signature.svg }} {{Maronite Politics sidebar}}
'''Georges Adwan''' ({{langx|ar|جورج عدوان}}; born 1947) is a lawyer and a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] politician who holds the position of vice-president of the executive committee of the [[Lebanese Forces]] party since 2005.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lebanese-forces.com/person/politicians-georges-edwan/ | title=جورج عدوان }}</ref><ref>[[Lebanese Forces]]</ref>
== Early life == Adwan was born in [[Deir al-Qamar]] of the [[Chouf District|Chouf district]] on September 15, 1947.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=جورج عدوان |url=https://www.lebanese-forces.com/person/politicians-georges-edwan/ |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=Lebanese Forces Official Website |language=en-US}}</ref>
He completed his secondary studies at the Marian Brothers School in [[Jounieh]] and has a bachelor's degree in Lebanese and French Law in the Institute of the Jesuit Fathers of [[Beirut]].<ref name=":0" />
== Career ==
=== Lebanese civil war and Al-Tanzim === [[Syrian intervention in Lebanon|Syria's military intervention in June 1976]], and its tacit endorsement by Georges Adwan (who combined the MoC's presidency with that of [[secretary-general]] of the [[Lebanese Front]] at the time), however, caused the movement to factionalize, splitting into a pro-Syrian element headed by Adwan himself and a radical anti-Syrian majority gathered around Mahfouz and Zouein.<ref>Rabinovich, ''The war for Lebanon'' (1989), p. 70.</ref> An attempted coup orchestrated by Adwan, in which the latter tried to take over the ''Tanzim'' Dekwaneh's military HQ resulted in a deep rift within the organization. Both Mahfouz and Zouein, which opposed Adwan's position and behaviour, played a crucial role in preventing further internal bloodshed among the group member's (despite the fact that Adwan had murdered [[Tony Khater]], a fellow ''Tanzim'' member){{cn|date=April 2025}} by regaining control of the movement, and ousting Adwan from the MoC/''Tanzim'' leadership board in late that year.
=== Politics === He has been an [[Member of Parliament|MP]] in the [[Lebanese Parliament]] as a representative of one of the three [[Maronite Christianity in Lebanon|Maronite]] seats in [[Chouf]] district since the [[2005 Lebanese general election|2005 legislative elections]]. Adwan was member of the Commanding Council of the [[Al-Tanzim]] Resistance during the [[Lebanese Civil War|Lebanese War]]. In 1989-1990, he was appointed as the official representative of the [[Lebanese Forces]] Resistance led by [[Samir Geagea]] during the discussions held with [[Michel Aoun|General Michel Aoun]] commanding the [[Lebanese army]]. He is also elected for the 2022 Parliamentary Elections in the [[Shouf|Chouf]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who are the new 128 MPs? |url=https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/elections-2022/646632/who-are-the-new-128-mps/en |access-date=August 26, 2022 |website=LBCI Lebanon |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Al-Tanzim]] *[[List of Lebanese Forces Deputies in the Lebanese Parliament]]
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