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Following the 2022 Lebanese general election, 128 members of parliament were elected, including 68 incumbents and 7 women.The election marked significant gains for independent candidates of varying political persuasions and marked the first time since the 1992 Lebanese general election that the Future Movement did not participate.
Lebanese political institutions often play a secondary role to highly confessionalized personality-based politics. Powerful families play an independent role in mobilizing votes for both local and parliamentary elections. A lively panoply of domestic political parties, some even predating independence, exists. The largest parties are all ...
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Lebanon's parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday, filling the vacant presidency with a general who has U.S. support and showing the weakened sway of the Iran-backed ...
The Lebanese Parliament (Arabic: مجلس النواب, romanized: Majlis an-Nuwwab, lit. 'House of Representatives', French : Chambre des députés ) [ 16 ] is the unicameral national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon .
But Lebanese political sources said Riyadh had not expressed any preference over the nomination of the new prime minister. U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed Aoun's election last week, saying ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon's parliament will try to elect a president on Thursday, with officials seeing better chances of success in a political landscape shaken by Israel's war with Hezbollah and ...
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