Sami Gemayel: Hybrid Law Takes us back to the Past because it Does Not Offer Fair Representation
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Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel criticized on Tuesday the hybrid parliamentary electoral law, saying that it does not offer fair representation.
He said: “This law takes us back to the past because it does not offer just representation.”
He made his remarks after the meeting of a parliamentary subcommittee at parliament.
“We will not obstruct any consensus reached by the political powers over the law, but we will exercise our democratic right to reject it,” he added.
He was criticizing the hybrid law, which adopts the winner-takes-all system for the qada and proportional representation system for the governorate.
The parliamentary subcommittee met on Tuesday to set the stage for the resumption of discussions between rival lawmakers on the draft-law.
It will meet again on Thursday with discussions set to focus on the hybrid proposal.
16 April 2013, 15:51
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Actually you re both wrong, but I enjoy how you ve tried to use Gemayal's disagreement with the hybrid law to argue that m14 doesn't allow dissension.
Perhaps you can back up your lackey opinions with evidence of m14 using henchmen or assassinations to keep its politician in line. You ve got the parties mixed up you fools.
16 April 2013, 22:53
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M11er well said! at the end of the day gemayel, geagea, and aoun only care about guaranteeing them the most MPs and can care less about christian rights! little gemayel is preaching to us about progressive politics but forgot to enlighten us how he reached his position within his one family party if it was not for his last name.
17 April 2013, 04:51
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If the PSP (Progressive Socialist Party) can have hereditary Beikmanship, then all others should be able to. I am with you if you included ALL in your comment, but not with you if you exculded the PSP from your comment.
17 April 2013, 12:36
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this is from alakhbar folks you gotta take it with a grain of salt. This yellow rag was created to invent stories hired Joseph Samaha to give it some credibility but when he insisted on serious journalism was offed "of natural causes" while on a private trip to London and replaced by the Kool Aid drinking Ibrahim Amine and his inventive team, more journalists have resigned from alakhbar since it's launch in 2006 that all the other Lebanese newspapers combined a clear condemnation of this National Enquirer wanna be.
An alakhbar scoop is like a scoop of ice cream left in the sun, on close examination it melts leaving behind nothing but a sticky goo gathering flies.
17 April 2013, 18:04
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"Fair" "just" representation? Does Sami really want to use those terms in reference to Christian party Deputies in Parliament when the current regime allows Christian parties 50% of the seats while Christian voters only make up, at most 39% of the population? He should be careful as the Moslems and Druze have a better case to make for "fair" and "just".
Lebanon needs to move to a Bi-Cameral solution to the election law issue. The competing interests cannot be resolved in the Unicameral context. The Chamber of Deputies must reflect the population, and the Lebanese Senate allow for equal representation between Moslem and Christian Senators and no Bill can become law unless it passes both Houses of Parliament in the same exact form.
This would be fair.
