By-Election to Replace Late MP Farid Habib Set for July
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel set July 15 as the date for the by-election to replace late MP Farid Habib.
The election will take place in the Koura district to fill the vacant Greek Orthodox seat in parliament.
Lebanese Forces bloc MP Farid Habib, representative of the northern Koura district, passed away on May 31 after a battle with illness.
He was elected in 2005 for one of the Greek Orthodox seats of the second electorate in the North.
He was reelected in 2009 as a representative of the Koura district.
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