EU Delegation Urges Lebanon to Form 'Fully Empowered' Electoral Commission

Lebanon’s electoral management and supervisory bodies “need to be fully empowered ahead of the 2022 Lebanon elections,” the EU Delegation to Lebanon said on Wednesday.

“A new Supervisory Commission for Elections with a properly sized budget, carrying out its mandate independently, is essential,” the Delegation added, in a tweet.

The chief observer of the EU Election Observation Mission to Lebanon in 2018, Elena Valenciano, had held talks with President Michel Aoun on Tuesday.

She was told by the President that “the parliamentary elections will be held on time, in the spring of 2022,” and that Lebanon “welcomes the presence of European observers to monitor them, as happened in the year 2018.”

Valenciano for her part told Aoun that the European Union is willing to repeat the experience of monitoring Lebanon’s parliamentary elections next year.