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e. The Lebanese Parliament (Arabic: مجلس النواب, romanized: Majlis an-Nuwwab, English "House of Representatives", French: Parlement Libanais) [12] is the 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 ...
2022 Lebanese general election. General elections were held in Lebanon on 15 May 2022 (one week earlier for overseas voters and one day earlier for ballot workers) to elect all 128 members of the Lebanese Parliament. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The country has for several years been the subject of chronic political instability as well as a serious economic ...
Across Lebanon fear is gripping people who say they don’t want a repeat of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war or worse — a situation like Gaza where the death toll has surpassed 41,000.
Monday was the bloodiest day in Lebanon since Hezbollah’s 2006 war with Israel. ... will be the Bekaa Valley in the north-east of Lebanon which is a Hezbollah stronghold. Live coverage of this ...
Hezbollah holds 14 of the 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon and is a member of the Resistance and Development Bloc. According to Daniel L. Byman, it is "the most powerful single political movement in Lebanon." [178] Hezbollah, along with the Amal Movement, represents most of Lebanese Shi'a. Unlike Amal, Hezbollah has not disarmed.
September 22, 2024 at 1:00 PM. Israeli warplanes pounded Hezbollah positions in Lebanon on Sunday after some of the militant group's rockets targeted the northern Israeli city of Haifa and the ...
Lebanon gained its independence on November 22, 1943, with the French army withdrawing its soldiers from Lebanon in 1946. The Lebanese National Pact became the framework for governance, leading to the allocation of political privileges, such as membership in parliament as well as senior bureaucratic and political appointments, to each of the 17 recognized sectarian communities based roughly on ...
Hundreds of handheld pagers exploded in Lebanon and parts of Syria on Tuesday, killing several people, including members of the militant group Hezbollah, and wounding thousands, officials said.