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ELECTIONS 2022

Arguments, scuffles break out at voting centers; one person has been injured

Arguments, scuffles break out at voting centers; one person has been injured

The Lebanese Red Cross evacuates a person injured at a voting center in Bireh. (Credit: Michel Hallak/L'Orient Today)

BEIRUT — Multiple incidents of dispute and conflict were recorded Sunday between voters and delegates from political parties in and around polling stations across Lebanon, leaving at least one person injured.

Here’s what we know:

    • The electoral process stopped at the polling station in Bireh Official High School due to disputes between delegates and voters. The army intervened and shot in the air. A dispute inside the polling station led to the injury of a person, who the Lebanese Red Cross transported to hospital.

    • In a polling station in the Ram area of Baalbek, Bekaa III, voting was suspended following a dispute between voters during which the lists of voters in registers 34 to 50 were damaged, the Lebanese Association for Diplomatic Elections reported.

    • In Kfarhouna, Jezzine, supporters of Hezbollah and Amal attacked a Lebanese Forces tent, according to the el-Nashra news site. This attack was denounced by the Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, who called on the security forces and the army to arrest those involved in the incident.

    • In front of the Saints-Coeurs school in Zahle the army deployed to settle a dispute between two groups of supporters, the NNA reported. A similar incident occurred in Kfarzabad, also in the district of Zahle.

    • In Fneideq, in Akkar, the ballot was suspended in two polling stations due to the “chaos” of the electoral operation and numerous infractions and disputes between delegates and supporters.

    • Some citizens in the Metn coast complained about the administration’s arrangements as some names disappeared from the electoral lists and others were incorrectly mentioned. Some citizens were deprived from voting as a consequence, the NNA reported.

   • The Lebanese Army said via Twitter account that “a problem was registered inside one of the polling stations in the Bireh area of Akkar … An army patrol intervened and fired bullets in the air to resolve the problem.”

BEIRUT — Multiple incidents of dispute and conflict were recorded Sunday between voters and delegates from political parties in and around polling stations across Lebanon, leaving at least one person injured. Here’s what we know:    • The electoral process stopped at the polling station in Bireh Official High School due to disputes between delegates and voters. The army intervened...