{{Short description|Lebanese physician and politician (born 1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | image_size = | caption = | office = Minister of Social Affairs | prime_minister = Fouad Siniora | predecessor = Nayla Mouawad | successor = Salim Sayegh | term_start = July 2008 | term_end = November 2009 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = Damour, Lebanon | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = Free Patriotic Movement (until September 2022) | alma_mater = University of Bordeaux | spouse = | children = }} '''Mario Aoun''' (born 1951) is a Lebanese physician and politician. He was a member of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) led by Michel Aoun. He was the minister of social affairs between 2008 and 2009.
==Early life and education== Aoun was born into a Maronite family in Damour in 1951.<ref name=now11jul>{{cite news|title=Meet the government|url=https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowspecials/meet_the_government|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 October 2013|work=Now Lebanon|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005013420/https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/nowspecials/meet_the_government|access-date=18 March 2013|date=11 July 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Profiles: Lebanon's new government|url=http://www.lebanonwire.com/0807MLN/08071201LW.asp|access-date=4 April 2013|work=Lebanon Wire|date=12 July 2008|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511134105/http://www.lebanonwire.com/0807MLN/08071201LW.asp}}</ref> He is a graduate of the University of Bordeaux and received a medical degree in endocrinology and metabolic illnesses in 1982.<ref name=now11jul/>
==Career== Aoun was the chief of service at Lebanese Hospital in Jeitawi in 2004.<ref name=now11jul/> He also worked at St. Charles Hospital in 2004.<ref name=now11jul/> In addition, he was FPM's coordinator in Damour.<ref name=now11jul/> Later he became the first FPM head of the Lebanese Order of Physicians on 31 May 2004.<ref>{{cite news|author=Nada Raad|title=Mario Aoun becomes new president of Beirut Order of Physicians |url=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/May/31/Mario-Aoun-becomes-new-president-of-Beirut-Order-of-Physicians.ashx#axzz2NuyCwpzo|access-date=18 March 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=31 May 2004|location=Beirut}}</ref> He served there until 2007. In July 2008, Aoun was appointed minister of social affairs to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and replaced Nayla Mouawad in the post.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aounist social affairs minister seeks bigger role|url=https://github.com/alx/cablegate/blob/master/origin/Embassy%20Beirut/08BEIRUT1247.txt|access-date=18 March 2013 |publisher=Wikileaks|date=25 August 2008}}</ref> Aoun ran for a seat from the Chouf district in the general elections of 2009, but he could not win the election.<ref name=ifes>{{cite web|title=Elections in Lebanon|work=IFES|access-date=22 March 2013 |url=http://qifanabki.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/ifes-lebanon-electoral-districts-2011.pdf}}</ref> Aoun's tenure as social affairs minister ended in November 2009, and he was succeeded by Salim Sayegh in the aforementioned post.<ref>{{cite web|title=Lebanon's new Government |work=International Foundation for Electoral Systems|access-date=18 March 2013|date=9 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 September 2013 |url=http://www.ifes.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Papers/2009/1572/Lebanons_new_government.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902195907/http://www.ifes.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Papers/2009/1572/Lebanons_new_government.pdf}}</ref>
In the 2018 elections Aoun won one of the Maronite seats in the Chouf District within the electoral district of Mount Lebanon IV.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lebanon24.com/news/470701|title=بالأرقام والصور.. هذه النتائج شبه النهائية لدائرة الشوف – عاليه |publisher=Lebanon 24|language=ar}}</ref> On 10 September 2022, he resigned from the FPM because of his clash with Gebran Bassil.<ref>{{Citation|title=Lebanon: Purge Targets Bassil's Rivals within FPM news|date=10 September 2022|access-date=26 October 2022 |url=https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3866021/lebanon-purge-targets-bassil%E2%80%99s-rivals-within-fpm|newspaper=Asharq Al-Awsat}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aoun, Mario}} Category:1951 births Category:20th-century Lebanese medical doctors Category:Free Patriotic Movement politicians Category:Lebanese endocrinologists Category:Lebanese Maronite politicians Category:Living people Category:People from Chouf District Category:Social affairs ministers of Lebanon Category:University of Bordeaux alumni