Lebanon has elected a new president after two years of political indecision, but not before some unexpected characters received votes — including Sen. Bernie Sanders, an American Jew.

Lebanese lawmakers elected army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Jan. 9, ending a more than two-year vacancy and marking a step towards lifting the war-battered country out of financial meltdown.

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect army commander Joseph Aoun as the head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum