Former minister Wiam Wahab, a staunch ally of Syria and its mouthpiece , proposed on Wednesday Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun for president of Lebanon to follow the path of present head of state Emile Lahoud. If such a successor could not be elected, better leave the office vacant for a while, Wahab stressed.The state-run National News Agency said Wahab, who heads the Lebanese Unification Movement, made the proposal in an address at a Hezbollah-sponsored rally in the southern village of Qsaibeh marking the party's "victory" over Israel in last summer's 34-day war which killed 1280 Lebanese citizens, displaced one million and demolished the nation's infra structure. "Henceforth, Gen. Aoun is a serious candidate for president," Wahab said, using the same words Hezbollah uses in describing Aoun.