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Lebanese members of parliament gather during a presidential elections session on April 23, 2014. (AFP)

Lebanese Electoral Law: A Political Demographic Crisis

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 20, 2017 | Features

Beirut – The Lebanese political powers are “living on the edge of the abyss” in their efforts to produce a new parliamentary electoral law a month away from the June 20 end date of the term of the current parliament. Despite the almost unanimous agreement on the need...

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Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil meet at the former’s resident in Ain el-Tineh in 2016. (NNA)

Lebanon: Berri-Bassil Dispute Deepens Electoral Law Crisis

by Paula Astih | May 16, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – The meetings that have been held in the past 48 hours failed to reach a breakthrough in Lebanon’s crisis over a new parliamentary electoral law. Some circles have even said that discussions have returned to square one after Speaker Nabih Berri’s deadline to...

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The parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. (Mohamed Azakir / REUTERS)

Lebanon: Negotiations over Electoral Law at a ‘Crossroads’

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 15, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri described a meeting that was held Sunday night as a “crossroads” towards reaching an electoral law based on the proportional system, away from sectarian and confessional considerations. Berri, Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and...

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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: Aoun, Berri Disagree Over Electoral Law

by Youssef Diab | May 11, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – Lebanon’s political scene witnessed on Wednesday a direct and unprecedented dispute between President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri over the ongoing electoral law crisis. Referring to a law proposed by Free Patriotic Movement leader and Foreign Minister...

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President Michel Aoun (Reuters)

Lebanon: Deepening Disagreements over Electoral Law, Aoun Keen on Fulfilling Youth Aspirations

by Youssef Diab | Jan 27, 2017 | Middle East

Beirut – While disagreements over the new electoral law deepened, a recently established quartet committee, formed of representatives from each of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Future Movement, Amal and Hezbollah, held its first meetings in an attempt to converge...