Representatives discuss the gender of the electoral law … and the country collapsed!

Maysam Rizk wrote in the Al-Akhbar newspaper under the headline “At the time of collapse … Parliament discusses the gender of the electoral law”: “According to available information from the joint committee session that took place yesterday in the square Nejmeh, the atmosphere was less harsh than the expectations that preceded it. Without eliminating the fact that the electoral law, which was on his agenda, had counted the parliamentary blocs, and had made the blocks “Strong Lebanon” and ” Strong Republic ”a united front against the“ Development and Liberation ”bloc. The session was like coals under the ashes.” El Futuro “and” La Marada “are silent, and the Socialist Party approached them registering a timid attitude, while Hezbollah, as usual, tried to play the role of firefighter to calm the discussion without closing the door completely.

It may not seem understandable, logical or even justified how a country that is fading due to its economic and financial crisis, that its deputies find time to discuss a new electoral law, instead of keeping open the parliamentary workshops, which would have nothing but seek solutions to the crisis, including He is firmly convinced that the solution to the insoluble crisis in Lebanon begins with a change in the political system, which really needs a modern and just law. However, in a situation like Lebanon today, with less than two years to go until the next parliamentary elections, in which things may change, many files must top the electoral law on the priority list. Therefore, his presentation raised many questions, and some parties interpreted it as directed against him, or as a response to other files that the criminal audit initiated.

With the exception of the “Development and Liberation” bloc, no other parliamentary bloc was available to express its support for a radical amendment in the electoral law that would amount to adopting Lebanon as a single electoral district and abolishing the sectarian restriction (maintaining the sectarian register ), which would allow us to understand the positions of the political parties towards him. Even those who did not publicly reject him tried to present a point of view that would lower his priority at the current stage. The clearest positions contrary to discussing the electoral law at present are those of the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces, whose deputies repeated what was said in the session and after its end, in the sense that “this is an attempt to change the system and cannot be accepted. ” The Aounists and the forces have a solid argument to oppose at the time of the proposal, based on “the need for reform, scrutiny of accounts, economic treatment, discussion and amendment of many laws that will help in this.” It is a proposal that “targets Christians first.” This is what the movement and the forces agreed, insofar as they agreed on the phrase that the law aims to “change the political system”, and it is an accusation that was translated into applause in the session more than once. ” Read the full article. Press here.