A cabinet meeting at the Baabda Presidential Palace on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Lebanese Presidency on X)
BEIRUT — All eyes are now on Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, after the Cabinet sent to Parliament on Thursday an urgent draft law, which would allow the Lebanese diaspora to vote for all 128 MPs in the 2026 parliamentary elections.The draft law provides for the suspension of Article 112 of the electoral law, which limits the voting of Lebanese expatriates to only six seats. This issue has resulted in significant division among actors in recent months: Berri and his ally, Hezbollah, as well as the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), have been calling for the current law to be applied as is. Their opponents, meanwhile, most notably the Lebanese Forces (LF), have been pushing to suspend it.Berri has repeatedly refused to include this debate in Parliament's agenda, prompting a majority of LF-aligned MPs to boycott the last three parliamentary...
BEIRUT — All eyes are now on Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, after the Cabinet sent to Parliament on Thursday an urgent draft law, which would allow the Lebanese diaspora to vote for all 128 MPs in the 2026 parliamentary elections.The draft law provides for the suspension of Article 112 of the electoral law, which limits the voting of Lebanese expatriates to only six seats. This issue has resulted in significant division among actors in recent months: Berri and his ally, Hezbollah, as well as the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), have been calling for the current law to be applied as is. Their opponents, meanwhile, most notably the Lebanese Forces (LF), have been pushing to suspend it.Berri has repeatedly refused to include this debate in Parliament's agenda, prompting a majority of LF-aligned MPs to boycott the last three...
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