After an unsuccessful attempt year 2000 to enter the Lebanese Parliament, he was elected member of the parliament for the Maronite seat of Baalbek-El Hermel district with 109,060 votes on the 7th of June 2009; his score is the highest amongst all elected members of the parliament in Lebanon.
The synod proclaimed Ignatius III Atiyah as the only Patriarch, and Cyril Dabbas he was brought in chains to Ras-Baalbek and exiled near Hermel, where shortly later he was executed by men of the Emir.
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