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Lebanese lawmakers meet in the Lebanese Parliament during a session to debate whether to extend their term 17 months, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday May 31, 2013. (AFP)

Lebanon Parliament Approves New Electoral Law despite Criticism

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 17, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut- Lebanon’s parliament has approved the country’s first proportional vote law that would allow the elections to be held in May 2018 after the current legislature served a nine-year term following two extensions of the lawmakers’ tenures in 2013 and 2015. The law...

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Lebanese lawmakers meet in the Lebanese Parliament during a session to debate whether to extend their term 17 months, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday May 31, 2013. (AFP)

Lebanon: Christian Demands Take Electoral Law Dispute back to Square One

by Youssef Diab | Jun 9, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Differences over the details of the parliamentary electoral law that Lebanon has toiled over for years are threatening to erase the recent progress that was achieved by President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Saad Hariri. The latest...

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Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri holds talks with Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on June 2. (Dalati & Nohra)

Lebanon Minister Predicts 7 Months at Most to Prepare Parliamentary Polls

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 2, 2017 | Middle East

Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq presented on Friday Speaker Nabih Berri with a study prepared by his ministry and the United Nations over the timeframe needed to prepare for the parliamentary elections now that the dispute over the electoral law is...

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President Michel Aoun, left, stands next of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, right, as he makes a speech after he was elected the new president at the parliament hall, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. (Ali Fawaz, Lebanese Parliament media office, via AP)

Lebanon: Efforts to Resolve ‘Rift’ Between Aoun, Berri

by Caroline Akoum | May 31, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – With the end of the Lebanese Parliament’s ordinary cycle on Wednesday, attention is focused on the session scheduled by Speaker Nabih Berri on June 5, which is expected to witness disagreements over “authorities” and the interpretation of the Constitution by...

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Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri strikes his gavel at the end of a parliamentary session in parliament in Beirut, May 31, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Amal Movement: Parliamentary Vacuum would Overthrow the Republic

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 26, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Lebanon’s Amal Movement, which is headed by Speaker Nabih Berri, has described the ongoing failure to agree on a parliamentary electoral law as “the most dangerous crisis that is currently hitting the country.” Allowing for a parliamentary vacuum would lead...