Kataeb Slams Govt. of 'Contradictions' for 'Tampering with Country's Democratic System'
The Kataeb Party on Monday lashed out anew at what it called a government of “contradictions” over its continued failure to approve a new electoral law.
“The Kataeb Party holds the political authority responsible for usurping the popular will and tampering with the country's democratic system through its procrastination in producing a new electoral law,” the party said in a statement issued after its political bureau's weekly meeting.
It warned the ruling political class against “taking the country into the unknown through its attempt to pass one of three terrible choices: elections under the 1960 law, extension (of parliament's term) or vacuum.”
“The Kataeb Party insists on a law that ensures correct representation and pluralism inside sects and allows popular accountability,” it said.
“Accordingly, the party is open to any draft law that achieves this, and the best law that achieves this would be one based on individual districts, but it also supports the one person, one vote system and proportional representation according to the 15 districts that were agreed on by the Christian parties in Bkirki,” Kataeb added.