Hajjar calls the electoral college of Mount Lebanon, on May 4

Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Ahmed Hajjar, on Wednesday called the electoral college of Mount Lebanon for the municipal and mukhtar elections to be held on May 4.

He also signed decisions to elect members of municipal councils and mukhtar councils, and to allocate polling stations.

This is the first round of an election spread over the four Sundays of May 2025, postponed three times in 2022, 2023, and 2024. On Sunday, May 11, the election will be held in the governorates of North Lebanon and Akkar. On Sunday, May 18, it will take place in Beirut and the Bekaa. Finally, on May 25, the vote will concern the governorates of South Lebanon.

On Tuesday, Minister Hajjar had affirmed to our publication that the municipal elections would take place within the set deadlines (next May). “The directives of the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and the Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, are clear on this plan,” he had said.

The calling of the electoral college of Mount Lebanon closely follows the submission by two deputies from the popular protest, Marc Daou and Waddah Sadek, of a bill aimed at technically postponing the election by a few months, in time to adopt some reforms to the electoral law. “We are ready to move forward with this process unless Parliament decides otherwise,” the Minister of the Interior had also said.