Raad Promises Full Proportional Representation Law before June 20

W460

The country will have an electoral law based on “full proportional representation” before June 20, head of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad told LBCI TV on Sunday.

June 20 is the date when the extended term of the current parliament will expire.

The country has not organized parliamentary elections since 2009 and the parliament has since extended its own mandate twice.

Hizbullah has repeatedly called for an electoral law fully based on proportional representation amid reservations by several parties.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement had argued that Hizbullah's arms would prevent serious competition in the party's strongholds while Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat had warned that such an electoral system would “marginalize” the minority Druze community whose presence is concentrated in the Chouf and Aley areas.

But Mustaqbal and Jumblat have recently announced that they would accept full proportional representation.

The Lebanese Forces has also said that it would accept full proportional representation should certain demands be met although the stance of its ally the Free Patriotic Movement remains unclear.

The FPM has recently proposed a hybrid electoral system involving sectarian voting in the first round but the majority of political parties have dismissed it as divisive and counterproductive.

On Sunday, MP Alain Aoun of the FPM warned that proportional representation “would turn into a control for one sect over another if voters keep exclusively voting for their sectarian groups.”

Comments 6
Thumb ex-fpm 07 May 2017, 18:43

Raad Promises Full Proportional Representation Law before June 20

Qaouq Slams 'Parties Refusing to Offer Concessions' on Electoral Law
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/229640-qaouq-slams-parties-refusing-to-offer-concessions-on-electoral-law

so what are the concessions the iranian party has made so far ?

Thumb janoubi 07 May 2017, 18:51

They did make concessions at least on 3 occasions:

1) They wanted a full full full proportional representation
2) They conceded and asked for a full full proportional representation
3) They conceded further and asked for a full proportional representation

Thumb i.report 07 May 2017, 21:28

Their concessions? They let us live with a knife down our throats, but at least you're alive.
Yes, it's a Very caricatural description of the situation , but it isn't far from the truth. They have weapons, we don't!

Thumb ashtah 07 May 2017, 18:55

When your arms terrorize the whole nation and bring a president to power you can make such claims.

Thumb Elemental 07 May 2017, 19:10

More takia nonsense.

Thumb shab 07 May 2017, 19:13

Filthy murdering militia. Proportional representation is rejected