South II

This is a constituency in which the Shiite parties, Amal and Hezbollah, absolutely dominate the field.

The constituency is the stronghold of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and has seven seats: six Shiite and one Greek Catholic. The small number of seats compared to the large number of registered voters in this entity means that the electoral coefficient is particularly high (more than 21,000 in 2018), which has a prohibitive effect on any potential competitor of the two Shiite parties.

The situation is not expected to change in 2022. However, it will be interesting to examine the scores of a possible protest list from Oct. 17, 2019 popular protest movement as the city of Sour was one of the sites of the uprising, although the movement developed more timidly in the city than elsewhere in the country, possibly due to t.

Another minor issue to follow is the performance of Amal’s candidates compared to Hezbollah’s. In 2018, while Berri came out on top of the polls by a wide margin, garnering the equivalent of a little more than two electoral coefficients on his own, the other Amal candidates closed the pack, largely outpaced by their Hezbollah colleagues. But it is true that by prior agreement between the two parties, the latter aligned only two candidates against the five of the Berri movement. As a result, the Hezbollah vote was more concentrated