Geagea: Contacts Ongoing with Hizbullah, AMAL over Adoption of Small Electoral Districts
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea noted on Tuesday that the adoption of small electoral districts in a parliamentary electoral law will be more just for the Lebanese people, reported the Central News Agency.
He told the agency: “Contacts are underway with the Hizbullah and AMAL leaderships over the small districts.”
He revealed: “The political leaderships will expand their contacts, within ten days, to include all parliamentary blocs in order to reach an agreement over an electoral law based on small districts.”
“If it is determined that the least amount of blocs are in agreement over the small districts, then the Free Patriotic Movement will have to agree with it,” Geagea said.
Once an agreement is reached over the new law, then it can be referred to parliament, he added.
“We are not trying to defy other powers, but we are simply attempting to provide the factors that will ensure the law's success,” he explained.
The FPM is trying to contradict what was agreed upon among the members of the Bkirki committee aimed at reaching an agreement over a new electoral law, continued Geagea.
The patriarch was aware of such an attempt and thwarted it and the result was an agreement over small electoral districts, he stated.
11 September 2012, 19:01
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The first sign of leadership is the ability to work with others toward common ground on issues over which there is a divergence of opinion.
Geagea reaching out to AMAL and Hezbollah indicate this with regard to Geagea and the leadership within AMAL and Hezbollah. Signs of hope.
11 September 2012, 19:56
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Small districts based on the majority system is doomed to fail and is again a step backwards in the road to democracy. The only system that can work for Lebanon is the Proportional Representation system, no matter what the size or the arrangement of the districts (13 districts, bigger, smaller or Orthodox proposal). Geagea's ideas, as usual, are a failure!
26 October 2012, 03:53
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than that, this is excellent blog. A great read. I will definitely
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