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Lebanon’s Reformed Electoral Law – is the cup really “half full”?
June 2, 2009 – 7:41 am | One Comment
Lebanon’s Reformed Electoral Law – is the cup really “half full”?

Following a provision of the Doha agreement, signed by Lebanese political leaders to put an end to the May 2008 crisis, the Lebanese parliament discussed the country’s Parliamentary Electoral Draft Law and voted for reform on September 29th, 2008. But many of the proposals made by the National Commission were rejected, leading Minister of the Interior Ziyad Baroud to qualify it as “a cup half full”. But is this too optimistic?