Bassil Assures Proportionality en Route to Completion
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said on Friday from Bkirki that an electoral law based on proportional representation was en route to completion.
“The entire electoral law discussions have been appropriate to reinstate our coexistence and diversity, where one enjoys a sense of privacy and simultaneously preserves multiplicity,” said Bassil after meeting Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki.
“Since the Orthodox (electoral law) and other law formats have failed and we adopted the proportional representation instead, we are here to meet the Patriarch and tell him that the mission is en route to completion,” added Bassil.
The Minister said that the battle remains ongoing to attain rights and ensure proper representation, pointing out that “proportionality is not similar to the 1960 law, it is much better,” he said.
“Our main concern is to avoid extension (of the parliament's term), vacuum and the (current) 1960 (majoritarian) law. Proportionality serves the Lebanese better than the 1960,” he said.
Source: Naharnet
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