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2013 elections may be canceled says Lebanon minister

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Lebanon Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said on Monday that the 2013 parliamentary elections might be disrupted or canceled as a result of security breaches.

“[The return] of bombings and assassinations might lead to the cancellation of the elections,” Charbel told MTV television station.

Charbel added that the proposed electoral law based on proportional representation is facing an uphill battle and is “becoming very difficult to implement,”adding, however, that he was still “hopeful” for the adoption of the new law.

Charbel also said that Christian MPs would be at a disadvantage in the next parliamentary elections.

“The territorial span of the Christians and the lack of cooperation between them prevents them from [proper representation].”

In a surprise move the interior minister added that he was opposed to allowing President Michel Suleiman lead a parliamentary bloc, saying that “it would threaten security.”

Charbel represents Free patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun and Suleiman in the cabinet

Lebanese parties are debating the electoral law for the upcoming elections. Hezbollah and Aoun are pushing for the proposed new law while Progressive socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblatt and the Future movement headed by former PM Saad Hariri rejected the proposed law and called for adopting the 2009 electoral law, which is based on the 1960 winner take all law.

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16 responses to “2013 elections may be canceled says Lebanon minister”

  1. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    There must be democracy first for elections to take place. Where is democracy in Lebanon? There is more democracy in Syria than in Lebanon as the glorious patriarch and general said. Only when weapons will be taken from parties that people can vote freely. Until then there is no democracy in leb and therefore all elections have no meaning (as we saw black shirts turning the majority into a minority in less than a day).

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      See Tripoli for weapons … in fact the country is full of them. Hezzy may have the biggest ones, but there are many of the people of various sects who knew enough to dig a hole to bury some in … for the wonderful future. Never mind the little criminal gangs that flourish with Syrian and Iranian thought-models, the resistance concept is strong everywhere.

  2. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    There must be democracy first for elections to take place. Where is democracy in Lebanon? There is more democracy in Syria than in Lebanon as the glorious patriarch and general said. Only when weapons will be taken from parties that people can vote freely. Until then there is no democracy in leb and therefore all elections have no meaning (as we saw black shirts turning the majority into a minority in less than a day).

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      See Tripoli for weapons … in fact the country is full of them. Hezzy may have the biggest ones, but there are many of the people of various sects who knew enough to dig a hole to bury some in … for the wonderful future. Never mind the little criminal gangs that flourish with Syrian and Iranian thought-models, the resistance concept is strong everywhere.

  3. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    Is that a heads up what hizbullah/bashar are up to in the near future ? Disrupt the Peace to maintain a state of emergency, sounds like a bashar approach. The people demand an election and they will stomp over who ever stop them from it. Lebanon is not Syria….

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Sad state of affairs. This springs from not having institutions in the country. They are essential for democracy and so is Parliament. The idea of do or not do in the case of elections should not be left to a minion or small fry. This is the job of a supreme establishment made up of experienced men and women of highest caliber in the land under serious debate but with authority to decide for what is best for the nation not single lightweight minnow.

  4. MeYosemite Avatar
    MeYosemite

    Is that a heads up what hizbullah/bashar are up to in the near future ? Disrupt the Peace to maintain a state of emergency, sounds like a bashar approach. The people demand an election and they will stomp over who ever stop them from it. Lebanon is not Syria….

    1. breakthemould Avatar
      breakthemould

       Sad state of affairs. This springs from not having institutions in the country. They are essential for democracy and so is Parliament. The idea of do or not do in the case of elections should not be left to a minion or small fry. This is the job of a supreme establishment made up of experienced men and women of highest caliber in the land under serious debate but with authority to decide for what is best for the nation not single lightweight minnow.

  5. yazidi Avatar
    yazidi

    look at that pussy…exactly like his president of no country..no water.poisoned food..no electricty..lot of wild animals race hezboshytan..jungle of the scum called lebanoiran…. 

  6. yazidi Avatar
    yazidi

    look at that pussy…exactly like his president of no country..no water.poisoned food..no electricty..lot of wild animals race hezboshytan..jungle of the scum called lebanoiran…. 

  7. Lebanon89 Avatar
    Lebanon89

    The election law with proportional representation that Minister Charbel is proposing is called affirmative action. It makes sense to not blindly trust that sectarianism will end on its own, people need to be guided out of it. For that same reason the west enacted affirmative action as it evolves out of racism. For those afraid of Hezbollah disrupting the peace, Hezbollah signed and respected a treaty, since 2006, that it would hold arms against Lebanon. Saudi mercenaries however have been fighting the Lebanese army on and off since 2007.  Hezbollah is the Lebanese equivalent of the zapatistas. They emerged from a neglected rural class and their goal is to end a social injustice towards them. Like the zapatistas they got our attention to their social cause once they were no longer using violence. Hezbolaah does have extreme religious views as well, but they showed an ability to evolve when they signed, in the MOU of 2006, that accept the Lebanese nationalist goal to separate religion and state. The Saudi backed Islamists however, or Hariri and Geagea supporters that shout “we want pure neighborhoods”, are plain racists with a dangerous faded glory complex. 

    1. libnan1 Avatar
      libnan1

       Affirmative

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah … at this point almost anything but Assad’s way could be tried. As long as it’s open and free for ALL voters.
      ELECT WOMEN !!

  8. Lebanon89 Avatar
    Lebanon89

    The election law with proportional representation that Minister Charbel is proposing is called affirmative action. It makes sense to not blindly trust that sectarianism will end on its own, people need to be guided out of it. For that same reason the west enacted affirmative action as it evolves out of racism. For those afraid of Hezbollah disrupting the peace, Hezbollah signed and respected a treaty, since 2006, that it would hold arms against Lebanon. Saudi mercenaries however have been fighting the Lebanese army on and off since 2007.  Hezbollah is the Lebanese equivalent of the zapatistas. They emerged from a neglected rural class and their goal is to end a social injustice towards them. Like the zapatistas they got our attention to their social cause once they were no longer using violence. Hezbolaah does have extreme religious views as well, but they showed an ability to evolve when they signed, in the MOU of 2006, that accept the Lebanese nationalist goal to separate religion and state. The Saudi backed Islamists however, or Hariri and Geagea supporters that shout “we want pure neighborhoods”, are plain racists with a dangerous faded glory complex. 

    1. libnan1 Avatar
      libnan1

       Affirmative

    2. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Yah … at this point almost anything but Assad’s way could be tried. As long as it’s open and free for ALL voters.
      ELECT WOMEN !!

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