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Elected members. The Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc is the political wing of Hezbollah in the Lebanese parliament. [2] Hezbollah through the bloc has participated in the Lebanese parliament [3] since the 1992 Lebanese general election, when it won 12 of the 128 seats. Hezbollah won 7 seats at the 1996 election and 10 at the 2000 election.
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 ...
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 ...
In a 1985 manifesto, Hezbollah expressed its goal of expelling Western forces from the Middle East and driving Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Hezbollah operates as a "state within a state ...
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. ... but bolstered in the parliament by the right wingers who support him, he is politically secure.
Lebanon's crisis has been so severe that more than 80 percent of the population is now considered poor by the United Nations. In the election Iran-backed Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement and its allies lost their parliamentary majority. Hezbollah did not lose any of its seats, but its allies lost seats.
Hezbollah, a political group and heavily armed militia, is widely seen as militarily more powerful than the army. ... Lebanon's parliament extended on Friday by one-year the term of army commander ...