The Lebanese Parliament gathered in Beirut on May 22, 2021. (Credit: Ali Fawwaz/Lebanese Parliament)
BEIRUT — Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday scheduled a parliamentary session for Thursday at 2 p.m. to vote on a request filed by some deputies to withdraw confidence in Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.
Here’s what we know:
• The request for a confidence vote came from Lebanese Forces MPs who accused Bou Habib of “complicating” the ballot for Lebanese expatriates ahead of legislative elections scheduled abroad on May 6 and 8.
• Lebanese living in Sydney recently raised concerns about the assignment of polling centers, when they said they found that voters from the same family had been assigned to different polling centers, sometimes several hours' journey apart.
• Lebanon’s consul general in Sydney, Charbel Macaron, was accused by social media users and some media outlets of changing the electoral lists. However, the Foreign Affairs Ministry rejected these criticisms, saying that voters had been assigned to polling stations according to their Australian postal codes as they appear on the registration forms.