Report: Jumblat May Accept Hybrid Electoral Law on Condition of Forming Senate
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat voiced his openness to the adoption of an electoral draft law that combines the winner-takes-all and proportional representation systems, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.
He was reported as saying that he advocates the hybrid law on condition that the process of establishing a senate begin, revealing that he had informed President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati of this position.
Speaker Nabih Berri has also started to examine the possibility of achieving this demand, revealed the daily.
Observers said that the speaker is expected to expand his consultations to that end with various political powers in order to guarantee that the parliamentary elections are held as scheduled in June.
Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan voiced his rejection however of studying the possibility of the formation of a senate.
He told An Nahar: “Discussions over a senate can only take place after the election of a new parliament.”
Moreover, he revealed that countries concerned with the situation in Lebanon had said that “there is no justification for the failure to hold the elections on time” in June.
“None of these states will however intervene to assist the factions in ending their dispute over the electoral law,” he remarked.
The proposal over the hybrid law was proposed during the parliamentary subcommittee meetings over the past two weeks.
The meetings failed in reaching an agreement over a new electoral law, amid disputes between the March 8 and 14 camps over the various draft law proposals.
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