Report: Suleiman, Miqati Suggest Electoral Law that Combines Berri, Mustaqbal Proposals
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Envoys of President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati are expected to present to various political factions a new version of the hybrid electoral draft law, reported the daily An Nahar Tuesday.
It said that Suleiman's envoy, former Minister Khalil al-Hrawi, and Miqati's envoy, Economy Minister Nicolas Nahhas, are set to hold discussions with the factions on a law that sees the election of 68 MPs based on the winner-takes-all system and 60 based on the proportional representation system.
The president and premier's draft law is also based on 26 electoral districts and nine provinces, added the daily.
This law combines that of Speaker Nabih Berri and the Mustaqbal bloc.
MP Ali Bazzi, of Berri's Development and Liberation bloc, had presented during parliamentary subcommittee sessions a version of the hybrid law that sees the election of half the MPs through the winner-takes-all system and the other half through proportional representation.
It too is based on 26 districts.
For its part, the Mustaqbal bloc had presented a draft law based on the same number of districts.
No more than five candidates can run in a single district, the largest of which will include an entire Qada.
26 February 2013, 09:57
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Expect miracles from the efforts of one toul bala ghalleh and one good for nothing president-by-parachute with heavy bags of dough.
26 February 2013, 13:44
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It is important to preserve the deadlock so that their oligarchy can continue to prey upon Lebanon. What will happen is just another neoliberal government by and for the wealthy.
Suleiman, Miqati and Berri are but part and parcel of the feudalistic apparatus that plays the people of Lebanon against one another for the profit of their constituents.
This pattern is being duplicated in the US, the EU and Asia. The world's capital and resources are being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands while poverty explodes ...
26 February 2013, 15:18
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So tell me mckinl son how many times did your parents drop you on your heads? Also they know now that staying in instead of going out to the movies is not always the best options as it can produce unfortunate side effects that can contaminate the gene pool.
26 February 2013, 16:34
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I know what you mean FlamingTurd lackeys like the old Sleiman Frangieh and the new Michel Aoun, so true.
26 February 2013, 18:04
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Christian representation is sacred no more stealing Christian votes
Any law that gives right representation is good
As for our unconstitutional president can he remind his true citizens what kind of salahiet he has
And for our prime better for him to go back and sell minutes for phone lines as he used to do
God bless Lebanon
