Not to minimize the importance of this story, but the presidency of this council rotates on a monthly basis. This was not necessarily the 'president' who was supposed to be in charge on June 30th..
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Adnan Pachachi is widely expected to be 'in charge' (i.e., titular head) after June 30th. He's a Sunni Muslim, BTW, so that should be quite interesting..