Municipal elections 2025: A 'technical delay' proposal that never stood a chance?
MPs Marc Daou and Waddah Sadek pushed for a postponement to implement reforms, but their proposal faces strong opposition from across the political spectrum.
Marc Daou and Waddah Sadek, opposition members of parliament, presenting the bill to postpone the municipal elections at the Chamber on March 28, 2025. (Credit: Ali Fawaz/Lebanese Parliament)
"I am convinced that the municipal elections will take place within the allotted timeframe [May]," Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar told L’Orient-Le Jour on the eve of the electoral college's call in Mount Lebanon, which is set to vote on May 4. The elections have already been delayed three times — in 2022, again in 2023, and in 2024."The instructions of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam are clear on this plan," he added. Hajjar's remarks reflect the new administration's determination to keep its promise of holding the municipal elections as scheduled. But, they also seem to be a response to a draft law proposing a "technical" delay in the elections to implement certain reforms, deemed essential. The initiative may, however, fizzle out, as an overwhelming majority of political...
"I am convinced that the municipal elections will take place within the allotted timeframe [May]," Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar told L’Orient-Le Jour on the eve of the electoral college's call in Mount Lebanon, which is set to vote on May 4. The elections have already been delayed three times — in 2022, again in 2023, and in 2024."The instructions of President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam are clear on this plan," he added. Hajjar's remarks reflect the new administration's determination to keep its promise of holding the municipal elections as scheduled. But, they also seem to be a response to a draft law proposing a "technical" delay in the elections to implement certain reforms, deemed essential. The initiative may, however, fizzle out, as an overwhelming majority of...
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