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Logo of the Lebanese general election, 2009. Preliminary results indicated that the turnout had been as high as 55%. [7] The March 14 Alliance garnered 71 seats in the 128-member parliament, while the March 8 Alliance won 57 seats. This result is virtually the same as the result from the election in 2005. However, the March 14 alliance saw this ...
Amal. Elected Speaker. Nabih Berri. Amal. The 2009 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was the 5th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement, held on 25 June 2009 during the first session of the 23rd parliament. The incumbent Speaker Nabih Berri and head of the Amal Movement was re-elected to a fifth term.
Lebanon was ranked second most electoral democracy in the Middle East according to V-Dem Democracy indices in 2023 with a score of 0.157 out of 1. [2][3] Those who are above 21 and are non active military personal are permitted to vote. Elections in Lebanon are made up of loose coalitions, usually organized locally, are formed for electoral ...
The Kataeb Party, officially the Kataeb Party – Lebanese Social Democratic Party (Arabic: حزب الكتائب اللبنانية – الحزب الديمقراطي الاجتماعي اللبناني Ḥizb al-Katā'ib al-Lubnānīya), [7] also known as the Phalanges, is a right-wing Christian political party in Lebanon founded by Pierre Gemayel in 1936.
Pierre Gemayel and Walid Eido, both assassinated, were replaced in a 2007 by-election by Camille Khoury and Mohammed Amin el Itani. Antoine Ghanem, assassinated in September 2007, was not replaced until the June 2009 regularly scheduled parliamentary election ushered in his successor.
In the closest and possibly most controversial presidential election in Lebanese history, the National Assembly elected Frangieh to the Presidency of the Republic on 23 September 1970. He oversaw the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War in the fifth year of his tenure. 1970: 6 Élias Sarkis إلياس سركيس (1924–1985) 23 September 1976
Events. In the 2009 Lebanese general election, the American-backed party March 14 Alliance defeated Hezbollah in the polls. [1]
However, from the mid-1970s until the parliamentary elections in 1992, the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) precluded the exercise of political rights. According to the constitution, direct elections must be held for the parliament every four years, however after the parliamentary election in 2009 [1] another election was not held until 2018.