Qaouq Says Lebanon Facing 'Unknown' Due to Failure to Agree on Electoral Law

W460

Hizbullah central council official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq warned Sunday that the failure to agree on a new electoral law has started to pose risks and an “unknown” future for the country.

“This is due to some parties' monopolization of unfair parliamentary representation and their rejection of equal (Christian-Muslim) power-sharing, partnership and real representation,” Qaouq said.

“There is no solution to the parliamentary elections dilemma other than agreeing on a new electoral law, because the deformed 1960 law is aggrieving the Lebanese and disorienting the Taef Accord,” the Hizbullah official added.

“Hizbullah's stance is the same behind closed doors and in public: the rejection of the 1960 law, extension and vacuum, and calling for a new law that ensures correct and fair representation,” Qaouq went on to say.

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 the proportional representation system, 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.

Comments 5
Thumb Elemental 26 February 2017, 18:25

I can never take the word from anyone who's very ideology allows them to lie about everything, be taken seriously. This is just empty takia nonsense.

Thumb Elemental 27 February 2017, 19:00

Why do you act so pathetic you equate me with your lovers? You're both trash, deal with it you takia waste.

Thumb shab 26 February 2017, 18:42

Filthy murdering militia

Default-user-icon CanAm (Guest) 27 February 2017, 02:39

What a waste of a beautiful country...

Thumb ex-fpm 27 February 2017, 07:02

وقال قاووق خلال احتفال تأبيني أقيم في بلدة كونين الجنوبية، على أن “الواجب الوطني والأخلاقي الذي فرض علينا أن نتدخل في سوريا لمواجهة الخطر التكفيري، يفرض علينا أن نكمل المعركة وأما الذين يراهنون على رئيس الولايات المتحدة الأميركية دونالد ترامب وسياساته وتهديداته وعقوباته لتغيير موقف “حزب الله” في سوريا، فإننا نؤكد لهم أن “حزب الله” قبل ترامب ومعه وبعده هو في موقع أداء الواجب والالتزام بالمسؤولية الأخلاقية والوطنية في حماية الوطن واللبنانيين، ونحن لسنا ممن يؤخذ بالتهديدات أو يبتز بالعقوبات، ولكن الاستقواء بسياسات ترامب من قبل ما يسمى بدول الاعتدال العربي هو الرهان الخاسر، وتعبير عن جهلهم وإفلاسهم، لأنهم لن يحصدوا منه إلا الاحتقار والمذلة”.