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Report: Complaints Rise about Election Law Violations

Fears have started mounting after reports alleging that numerous violations against the electoral law were detected, in addition to “clientelist vote buying and abuse of government resources,” as the country gears up for its first general elections in nine years, media reports said Tuesday.

Well-informed political sources told An Nahar daily, there is an “ability to prepare large files on practices violating the integrity of the electoral process that may be submitted later to the European Union observer mission, as well as to the Lebanese regulatory and judicial bodies.”

The sources denounced exploitation of “officials’ influence”, saying “it has become clear that some interferences are taking a security character that can no longer be ignored.”

Several parties involved in the May 6 electoral race “are going to unites their voices against this type of intervention,” added the sources.

“The government can no longer remain silent, at least to prevent the portrayal of making the electoral process look like a war intended to annul the opposition or known political parties,” they said.

Source: Naharnet


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