Qabalan Reiterates Calls for Proportional Representation Electoral Law
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The deputy head of the Higher Shiite Islamic Council, Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan urged Lebanon's politicians to work hard to produce a new electoral law that fulfills just representation, the National News Agency reported Friday.
“Politicians must work hard to devise a new electoral law that achieves just representation and reflects the aspirations of the Lebanese people to choose their representatives (in the parliament),” said Qabalan in a speech during the Friday prayer.
“That is why we have asked and still call for the adoption of a proportional representation law considering Lebanon a single electoral district, which allows a Muslim Lebanese to elect his Christian brother and a Christian can elect his Muslim brother in order to make Lebanon a country of true partnership without partiality to any of its components,” concluded Qabalan.
Hizbullah has repeatedly called for an electoral law based on proportional representation but other political parties, especially al-Mustaqbal Movement, have rejected the proposal and argued that the party's controversial arsenal of arms would prevent serious competition in regions where the Iran-backed party is influential.
Mustaqbal, the Lebanese Forces and the Progressive Socialist Party have meanwhile proposed a hybrid electoral law that mixes the proportional representation and the winner-takes-all systems. Speaker Nabih Berri has also proposed a hybrid law.
The country has not voted for a parliament since 2009, with the legislature instead twice extending its own mandate.
The 2009 polls were held under an amended version of the 1960 electoral law and the next elections are scheduled for May 2017.
16 December 2016, 13:47
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why do the iranian shias living in Lebanon want proportional representation?
16 December 2016, 16:28
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foreigners like you both have no say in Lebanese internal issues!, now zip it.
16 December 2016, 16:52
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proportional law is not a good law as it makes a country ungovernable because many parties are represented and no clear majority is elected.
every country who use that law are always subject to politcal crisis...
but i guess as hezbis are so keen on that law it is because it is their true goal: make the country ungovernable....
16 December 2016, 17:01
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If the government must be based on too many small parties they may disagree when new issues emerge. This may become a danger to political stability and cause anticipated elections absorbing the attention of politicians. If instability gets notorious in a country, the state as a whole will just not be able to perform the tasks it should.
16 December 2016, 19:02
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1/ i do not support mustaqbal or any other mafiosi party.
2/ just google and you ll see the explanations of different voting systems and see by urself where proportional voting lead the countries where it is used....
but of course as hezbis want it, for you it is the best thing... pityful you just go and educate urself by yourself, if you have the neurones for it....
