The Lebanese look forward to parliamentary elections in June of this year. The 128 seats in the Majlis Al-Nuwab, or parliament, will all be up for re-election. The elections will take place under a law agreed to last May in Doha, Qatar, when the Lebanese parties resolved a long-running dispute on a whole bunch of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Electoral Law’
The 2009 elections: some numbers
Posted in Politics, tagged Amal, Aoun, Elections, Electoral Law, Hezbollah, Lebanon, March 14, Middle East, Sectarianism on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A nation divided: building democracy in a multi-ethnic state
Posted in Politics, tagged Democracy, Elections, Electoral Law, Government, Lebanon, Middle East, Parliament, Voting on August 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For most people in Lebanon today electoral reform is seen as a top priority. That is why one of the first acts of the first anti-Syrian-led government was to establish a special commission to propose a new electoral law that would have broad national consensus. The 8th of August 2005, the day the commission was [...]
The 1960 electoral law
Posted in Politics, tagged Electoral Law, Hariri Case, Israel, Syria, United States on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Berri’s announcement that they will ask for the approval of the 1960 electoral law as a condition for electing Suleiman for president is another possible sign that the timing of Hariri’s murder just when that same law was about to be agreed on in early 2005 was crucial. Whoever got rid of him wanted to [...]
