A polling station in Beirut, on May 18, 2025. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
The third (and largest) round of voting in the municipal elections was held Sunday in Beirut and in the governorates of the Bekaa and Baalbeck. At the end of the day, during which more than one million voters had the chance to head to the polls, turnout stood at 21 percent in the capital and 45 percent in the other districts, according to figures from the Interior Ministry.By late evening, preliminary results revealed emerging trends, particularly in the Baalbeck area, where the Amal-Hezbollah alliance appeared to show early signs of weakness following last fall’s full-scale war, and in Zahleh, where the Lebanese Forces (LF) claimed a solo victory against a bulldozer list bringing together a broad array of political actors. Finally, in Beirut, the list backed by political parties seemed to have taken the lead, pending the results of the...
The third (and largest) round of voting in the municipal elections was held Sunday in Beirut and in the governorates of the Bekaa and Baalbeck. At the end of the day, during which more than one million voters had the chance to head to the polls, turnout stood at 21 percent in the capital and 45 percent in the other districts, according to figures from the Interior Ministry.By late evening, preliminary results revealed emerging trends, particularly in the Baalbeck area, where the Amal-Hezbollah alliance appeared to show early signs of weakness following last fall’s full-scale war, and in Zahleh, where the Lebanese Forces (LF) claimed a solo victory against a bulldozer list bringing together a broad array of political actors. Finally, in Beirut, the list backed by political parties seemed to have taken the lead, pending the results of...