Lebanese Parliament meeting at Place de l'Étoile on Sept. 29, 2025. (Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Following Gebran Bassil’s initiative, MPs affiliated with Joumblatt are making their move. A few days after the Free Patriotic Movement leader made a proposition to break the deadlock over diaspora voting in the 2026 legislative elections, the Democratic Gathering, the parliamentary bloc of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), stepped in, highlighting what it calls its centrist stance on the political spectrum. Behind the scenes, it has been in contact with several parliamentary blocs to lay the groundwork for a compromise between the majority of MPs on the one hand, who want to amend the electoral law to grant Lebanese expatriates the right to vote for all 128 MPs, and the Hezbollah camp on the other, which prefers to maintain the current law, limiting this representation to six MPs.L’Orient-Le Jour learned that these efforts revolve...
Following Gebran Bassil’s initiative, MPs affiliated with Joumblatt are making their move. A few days after the Free Patriotic Movement leader made a proposition to break the deadlock over diaspora voting in the 2026 legislative elections, the Democratic Gathering, the parliamentary bloc of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), stepped in, highlighting what it calls its centrist stance on the political spectrum. Behind the scenes, it has been in contact with several parliamentary blocs to lay the groundwork for a compromise between the majority of MPs on the one hand, who want to amend the electoral law to grant Lebanese expatriates the right to vote for all 128 MPs, and the Hezbollah camp on the other, which prefers to maintain the current law, limiting this representation to six MPs.L’Orient-Le Jour learned that these efforts...
