Change and Reform Demands Adoption of Orthodox Electoral Law for Parliamentary Polls

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The Change and Reform bloc demanded on Tuesday that an electoral law that offers fair representation be adopted during the parliamentary elections.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “We stress our constant support for the Orthodox Gathering electoral law, which has not been given a chance by officials.”

This law offers just representation, but it seems that some sides don't want this, he added without elaborating.

Bassil also congratulated Amal Abou Zeid on his success in Sunday's parliamentary by-elections that were held in Jezzine.

The official is backed by Bassil's Free Patriotic Movement.

The minister hoped that the by-elections and the municipal polls will pave the way to staging the parliamentary ones in the future.

Speaker Nabih Berri had last week made a proposal aimed at ending the political impasse in Lebanon.

It calls for shortening the term of the current parliament and staging the parliamentary polls and later the presidential ones.

The parliamentary elections would be held based on the proportionality electoral law.

Should the political powers fail to agree on this law, then the 1960 one would be used. This law was adopted in the 2009 elections.

The package deal also calls for electing a new parliament speaker and bureau and forming a national unity government.

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Y.R.

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Thumb EagleDawn almost 8 years

He must be standing on a 1 meter high stool.