The Minister of the Interior and Municipalities, Ahmad Hajjar, stated on Wednesday that the municipal and mukhtar elections will be held exceptionally on Saturday, May 24 in the South and Nabatieh instead of Sunday, a holiday for the occasion of "Resistance and Liberation Day" in south Lebanon.

He also convened on Wednesday the electoral colleges of these regions and signed the decisions to elect the members of the municipal councils and the councils of the mukhtars, and to distribute the polling stations.

The minister also discussed the upcoming municipal elections during a meeting of the Central Security Council on Wednesday, attended by the governors of the various regions, several security officials and ministry employees. Hajjar called for "the application of the most complete neutrality" during the vote.

"No civil servant is authorized to interfere in the elections. We must also combat bribery and money paid for electoral purposes," he said. This election should "confirm the strong mandate of President Joseph Aoun and the government of Nawaf Salam."

This will be the fourth round of a municipal election spread over three Sundays and one Saturday in May 2025. These elections have been postponed three times, in 2022, 2023, and 2024. On Sunday, May 4, the election will take place in the governorates of Mount Lebanon, on the 11th, North Lebanon and Akkar, and on May 18, in the Bekaa, the Baalbeck-Hermel region and Beirut.

Hajjar has repeatedly emphasized that municipal elections will take place within the allotted time, before the expiration of the municipal councils' terms at the end of May.