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Berri Announces AMAL Candidates for Elections, Stresses Adherence to Constitution, National Pact

Speaker Nabih Berri announced in a press conference on Monday the names of the AMAL Movement candidates that will be running in the parliamentary elections, urging commitment to forthcoming electoral lists that will be gathering AMAL, Hizbullah and other allies.

Berri said the AMAL Movement's program is based on commitment to the Constitution and the Taef Agreement. “Committing to the Constitution and the National Pact is our foremost choice,” he stressed.

He pointed out that “he will keep up efforts to eliminate political sectarianism in Lebanon and to adhere to the trilogy formula of Army, People and the Resistance.”

Referring to Israel's threats against Lebanon's oil and land rights, he called for completing the “demarcation of the maritime Blue Line and to protect Lebanon's offshore excavation rights. Israel is our enemy, not Iran,” he said.

Berri said they will work on improving the representation of women in the parliament.

Amal Movement's candidates are listed as follows:

-Tyre-Zahrani (second electoral district in the South): Ali Khreis, Inaya Ezzeddine, Ali Osseiran, Nabih Berri, Michel Moussa

-Nabatiyeh-Marjeyoun-Hasbaya (third electoral district in the South): Ayoub Hmayed, Ali Bazzi, Yassine Jaber, Hani Qobeissi, Ali al-Khalil, Anwar al-Khalil, Qassem Hashem

-West Bekaa (second electoral district in Bekaa) : Mohammad Nasrallah

-Baalbek-Hermel (third electoral district in Bekaa): Ghazi Zoaiter

-Beirut second electoral district : Mohammed Khawaja

-Baabda (Mount Lebanon): Fadi Alameh

Source: Naharnet


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