The fiercest battle in the 2022 polls Sunday was fought in North Lebanon III, the constituency of the presidential candidates. In this constituency (10 seats: seven Maronites and three...
BEIRUT — Following the announcement of the official results of the 2022 parliamentary elections Tuesday, speaker of the outgoing Parliament, and leader of the Amal Movement, Nabih Berri held a...
BEIRUT — Following the announcement of the official results of the 2022 parliamentary elections Tuesday, Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil held a press conference, during which he said...
The battle in the Mount Lebanon III constituency (Baabda district, six seats: three Maronites, two Shiites and one Druze) resulted in a crushing defeat for the protest movement groups that failed...
BEIRUT — The United Nations Children's Fund has called for an end to celebratory gunfire, which in the past two days injured four children. In a statement released Tuesday, UNICEF said that...
The constituency of Beirut I includes the Christian neighborhoods of Achrafieh, Rmeil, Saifi and Medawar: eight seats, including three Armenian-Orthodox, one Armenian-Catholic, one Maronite, one...
Aounists received a rare piece of good news after the parliamentary elections. In the North I constituency, the Akkar district, where seven seats were up for contention (three Sunni, two Greek...
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BEIRUT – The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, on Tuesday warned his party’s opponents in the incoming new Parliament against acting “as shields for the Zionists and the...
BEIRUT — In a preliminary report on the results of their monitoring of the electoral process in Lebanon, the European Union Election Observation Mission noted that election preparations were...
In the Bekaa III constituency (Baalbek-Hermel), the Lebanese Forces managed to keep their Maronite seat, which went to Antoine Habshi but lost a Sunni seat. The nine other elected MPs came from the...
Samir Geagea’s Lebanese Forces gained one seat compared to the 2018 polls in the Bekaa I constituency, consisting of the Zahle district (seven seats: two Greek Catholic, one Sunni, one Shiite, one...
BEIRUT — Official results are in for Lebanon’s legislative elections, with the incoming Parliament set to be a contested one: Hezbollah and its allies have failed to retain their majority, while...
The list that is close to the Oct. 17 protest movement has broken the glass ceiling of Hezbollah-Amal in the South III constituency (11 seats: eight Shiite, one Sunni, one Druze and one...
BEIRUT — Now that parliamentary elections have passed, Lebanon’s leaders will need to turn their attention back to tackling the country’s most pressing financial and economic issues. While Prime...
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Lira losses accelerated over election weekend, dropping 11 percent since Thursday to trade today at LL30,000 to the US dollar. There is an old saying on Wall Street that markets hate uncertainty....
The South Lebanon I constituency, consisting of the city of Saida and Jezzine, has had the most surprises, as the two main political parties in the area, namely Amal and the Free Patriotic...
BEIRUT — Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced parliamentary election results in the final three districts Tuesday morning, covering the Beirut II, North I and II districts. The races in these...
BEIRUT — The UN Secretary-General António Guterres congratulated Lebanon, Tuesday, for holding the parliamentary elections on time in a statement that noted: “despite the challenging circumstances,...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Sign up here . It was an unnerving, chaotic but also hopeful day for Lebanon, as the whole country breathlessly braced for the final results of Sunday’s...
BEIRUT — Just before midnight Monday, Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced another set of results of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, this time for the North III and South III...
