Raad Meets Aoun, Says 1960 Law 'No Longer Appropriate for Lebanon'
A delegation from Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc held talks Wednesday with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace.
“The 1960 (electoral) law is no longer appropriate for Lebanon and the Lebanese,” the head of the bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, announced after the meeting.
“All Lebanese components with all their levels must be represented and let them practice their opposition inside parliament,” Raad added, referring to Hizbullah's call for an electoral law based on the proportional representation system.
The country has not organized parliamentary elections since 2009 and the legislature has since extended its own mandate twice.
While al-Mustaqbal Movement has rejected that the electoral law be fully based on proportional representation, arguing that Hizbullah's arms would prevent serious competition in the party's strongholds, Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat has totally rejected proportional representation, even within a hybrid law, warning that it would “marginalize” the minority Druze community.
The political parties are meanwhile discussing several formats of a so-called hybrid law that mixes proportional representation with the winner-takes-all system.
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