20 Wednesday Mar 2013
Posted in LB Politics, Lebanon
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elections, Lebanese Elections, Lebanese Elections 2013, Lebanese people, lebanon, Michel Aoun, Orthodox Law, sectarianism
Michel Aoun is one of the direct and blunt politicians in Lebanon which makes him say stupid things a lot of time, if not most.
In his continuous and pointless sectarian defence to his sectarian electoral law proposal (Orthodox Law) which stipulates each sect electing its MPs, and getting the Christians to elect 50% of the parliament, he said:
03 Sunday Feb 2013
Posted in LB Culture, LB Politics, LB Social, Lebanon, Politics
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elections, Lebanese Elections, Lebanese Elections 2013, Lebanese people, lebanon, Orthodox Law, Satire, sectarianism
After nearly 29 years on the implementation of the federation of sects which started in 2013 with the Orthodox Gathering electoral Law, strong voices are reappearing again calling for the “correction of the injustice” that some minorities within the same big sects still face.
These minorities include the Maronites living outside Mount Lebanon, Shiites living outside the South and Bekaa, and Sunnis outside Beirut and the North. Their concerns revolve around their feeling of being third grade citizens within their big sects. These feelings led to the formation of extremist organisations like MMMM (Maronites Mad Max Man), MWSJ (the Military Wing of the Shiite of Jbeil) and DMB (Druze Militia of Beirut). Also, Sunnis show relatively more severe disintegration than other sects with another dimension of the clash being between the four main religious doctrines: Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanafi, and Hanbali.
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
Posted in LB Politics, Lebanon, Politics
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Future Movement, Lebanese Elections 2013, Lebanese government, lebanon, Marwan Charbel, Proportional Representation
The Lebanese government has passed a new draft law electoral law based on Proportional Representation (PR) yesterday, in which it divides Lebanon into 13 districts. The new draft law will have to be debated and passed by the parliament, which could make it also a totally different animal by then.
In a previous post, I concluded that Hezbollah and its M8 alliance will be the main winners from PR if Lebanon was adopted as one district. Now, the cabinet is proposing 13 districts, which could mitigate Hezbollah’s influence, but overall, they are still winning from such a proposal. Which is why Hariri and March 14 are quite vocal against PR, although I am not sure what they really want instead of it!
07 Monday May 2012
Posted in LB Politics, Politics
There is a lot of talk now in Lebanon about the Proportional Representation (PR) elections system, and whether to adopt an election system based on it in the next general elections 2013.
The idea is being faced with mixed stances from the different parties, with a main opposition from Walid Jumblatt. One thing is sure about Proportional Representational system that it is a fairer system that represents parties according to their “proportion” and gives access to parliament to the smaller parties and independents.
I wanted to see how the parliament would look like in 2013 if a PR system was adopted, so I have done a small study based on the 2009 elections results.
