Lebanese people participating in the municipal elections in Mount Lebanon, May 4, 2025. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
The Interior Ministry published the municipal election results in the districts of Aley, Kesrouan and Jbeil in Mount Lebanon on Tuesday on its website.
On Monday evening, the election results in the district of Baabda were published. According to the ministry, 376,725 people voted on Sunday, representing a 45.16 percent turnout rate. Additionally, 660 complaints were registered, and 8,075 calls were received on the 1766 hotline.
UNIFIL praise
On Tuesday, the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major General Aroldo Lázaro, praised the efforts of the Lebanese government, political parties, and local officials for their determination to create the necessary conditions for holding the municipal elections "despite the many challenges currently facing the country," describing the achievement as a "courageous and necessary challenge for the democratic future of Lebanon."
The municipal elections and those of the mokhtars will take place every Sunday of May and the last Saturday, May 24, in the South. Municipal elections were postponed three times, in 2022, 2023 and 2024. On Sunday, May 4, the election was held in the governorates of Mount Lebanon, and will continue on May 11 in North Lebanon and Akkar and on May 18 in the Bekaa, Baalbeck-Hermel region, and Beirut.
Interior Minister Ahmad al-Hajjar praised elections prepared in record time, without major incidents on the ground despite complaints recorded by the central operations room, mostly administrative in nature (like missing names from lists).
