Beirut Electoral Map

Here’s a comparison I found at Blogging Beirut between the 2000 and the 2008 electoral laws for Beirut. As you can notice, the changes are obviously aimed at Mr. Hariri by lumping most of the Sunnis in one district and carving 2 smaller districts for minorities:

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Lebanese 1960s Election law (Map) + Beirut Update

Here’s a map that shows the districts of the 1960s electoral law that will be used for the next general elections in Lebanon.

A lot of people are interested in seeing this, so please pass it around.
Update: Here’s a map of Beirut’s new law from Blogging Beirut (more details here)

The FPM’s Point Of View

Here’s how Antoine Hindi, an FPM (Aounist) reader of this site sees thing:
(Ps: The views expressed in this post do not necessarily represent those of Beirut Spring)
-Hizballah used arms internally and lost their right to claim otherwise-FPM condoned the use of violence - very negative in their street-LF Samir Geagea embarrassed himself with ridiculous claims [...]

Boutros Law Gets Two Powerful Backers

Could the support of a maverick party leader and a highly influential journalist set the Boutros law snowball rolling?
Could they help make our elections fair?
This blog has long argued that the fairest election law out there is the one set up by the national electoral law commission headed by the highly respected figure Mr. Fouad [...]

Pssst… Let’s Solve Some Problems While We’re fighting

The politicians may be fighting in public, but they’re also solving day-to-day problems in secret.
(photo source)
A Thorny matter of health insurance is being discussed by politicians in Beirut. The Future Movement and Hezbollah both present position papers to guide the deliberations. A civilized debate follows, and several hours later, a compromise is reached and decisions [...]

Battle Of The Websites

The Lebanese Forces and the FPM have both decided to overhaul their online news portals.

One party wants to unzip their new site open while the other prefers to tear off the cover. Isn’t competition a wonderful thing? Say what you want about the Lebanese Christians, but they seem to be the only ones engaged in [...]

Aoun: March 14 defectors Will Join Us Soon

Rattled by his own defections, the Rabieh General decides to bamboozle us.
Don’t laugh too hard:
أعلن رئيس تكتل التغيير والاصلاح العماد ميشال عون ان اربعة نواب من الاكثرية سينضمون الى التكتل دون ان يقفل اللائحة على نواب آخرين لكن آلة القتل التي يستخدمها البعض في السياسة الداخلية تمنع الآن الاعلان عن الاسماء
Translation: The head of the [...]

Lebanese Law To Abolish censorship And Set Up An Independent ‘Committee of Wise Men’

Our minister of culture appears to be planning an ambitious law against the “outdated practice” of censorship…
A lot on his mind…
…Or so he told Rana Moussaoui of the AFP, at the end of a lengthy-yet-interesting article about censorship in Lebanon. (Excerpt: “Lebanese society is too steeped in religion to accept attacks on the sacred,” said [...]