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In 2019, Lebanon's overall performance in the SDG Index ranked 6th out of 21 countries in the Arab region. [18] Multi-stakeholder forums were held by different UN agencies including the UN Global Compact Network in Lebanon during the late 2010s for the advancement of Global Goals and their Impact on Businesses in Lebanon. The latest two were ...
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 ...
'House of Representatives', French: Chambre des députés) [16] is the unicameral national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constituencies , apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian and Muslim denominations but with half of the seats reserved for Christians and half ...
Politics of Lebanon Member State of the Arab League Constitution Constitution of 1926 Human rights Executive President (list) Joseph Aoun Prime Minister (list) Najib Mikati Cabinet Past Cabinets Legislature Parliament Speaker: Nabih Berri Subdivisions Governorates Districts Municipalities Elections Recent elections Presidential: 2008 2014–2016 2022–2025 General: 2009 2018 2022 Political ...
The foreign policy of Lebanon reflects its geographic location, the composition of its population, and its reliance on commerce and trade. As'ad AbuKhalil argues that foreign intervention has been a mainstay of Lebanon's domestic politics throughout its history as a nation-state, with British, French and American influence predominating from the declaration of independence in 1943 until the ...
The Union Party (Arabic: حزب الإتحاد Hizb el ittihad) is a Lebanese political party based in Beqaa Governorate and led by former minister Abdelrahim Mourad. The party is officially secular and its ideology is Nasserism. The party was founded as Resurrect the Revolution (Arabic: بعث الثورة), and took on its current name in ...
Lebanon, due to its tense sectarian diversity, has a unique political system, known as confessionalism, in which each religious group is allocated a fixed number of seats in parliament. [2] The country enjoyed a period of relative calm and prosperity before the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. [ 3 ]
Union of Lebanese Democratic Youth (ULDY) (Arabic: اتحاد الشباب الديمقراطي اللبناني, transliterated: Ittihad ash-Shabab ad-Dimuqrati al-Lubnani), also known as UJDL (the French abbreviation of Union de la jeunesse démocratique libanaise), is a Lebanese leftist secular democratic youth organization as it defines itself in its documents. [1]