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The "Land of the Cedars", as Lebanon is known, is the only one in the region where Catholics play an active role in national politics. Besides the President of the Republic, which by the Constitution of Lebanon must be a Maronite Catholic, in the Lebanese Parliament there are 43
MOUNT LEBANON 6 Strong Lebanon Lebanese Democratic Party: Druze Mount Lebanon's Guaranteed change 9,887 59,027 173,320/329,881 Alain Aoun: MOUNT LEBANON 3 Strong Lebanon Free Patriotic Movement: Maronite National Accord 11,200 41,669 80,052/166,137 Albert Sami Mansour BEKAA 3 Social Nationalist Bloc Syrian Social Nationalist Party: Greek Catholic
The Lebanese Parliament (Arabic: مجلس النواب, romanized: Majlis an-Nuwwab, lit. 'House of Representatives', French : Chambre des députés ) [ 12 ] is the national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon .
The Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Catholic Church, is the largest and politically most active and influential denomination of Lebanon's Christians. The Catholic Church also includes other Eastern Catholic churches, such as the Melkite Catholic Church.
Mount Lebanon 4 - Chouf: Strong Republic Lebanese Forces: Maronite Partnership and Desire 11,433 83,389 83,389/179,976 Ghassan Amal Attallah Mount Lebanon 4 - Chouf: Strong Lebanon Free Patriotic Movement: Greek Catholic List of the Mountain 5,149 41,545 41,545/179,976 Halima Ibrahim Kaakour Mount Lebanon 4 - Chouf: Change Bloc Lana: Sunni
Lebanon is a parliamentary democratic republic within the overall framework of confessionalism, a form of consociationalism in which the highest offices are proportionately reserved for representatives from certain religious communities.
Lebanon has hundreds of registered political parties. After 2005, when the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri precipitated the Cedar Revolution, the political landscape became polarized between two rival alliances, the March 8 Alliance and the March 14 Alliance. Both names refer to dates of mass demonstrations during the ...
Lebanon's national legislature is called the Chamber of Deputies (Arabic: مجلس النواب, romanized: Majlis An-Nouwab).Since the elections of 1992 (the first since the reforms of the Taif Agreement of 1989) removed the built-in majority previously enjoyed by Christians, the Parliament is composed of 128 seats with a term of four years.