Raad: Electoral Law Essential for National Partnership

Hizbullah's top lawmaker Mohammed Raad stressed Monday that the electoral law is essential for “national partnership.”

“The election of a president is a main pillar but national partnership must be embodied in the electoral law, which is another main pillar without which political life cannot be stabilized,” Raad, the head of the Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, said.

Hizbullah has recently showed solidarity with its ally the Free Patriotic Movement by boycotting a cabinet session that was held in the absence of the movement's ministers – Jebran Bassil and Elias Bou Saab.

The FPM, which has the biggest Christian bloc in parliament, has suspended its participation in cabinet sessions and national dialogue meetings over accusations that other parties in the country are not respecting the National Pact.

The 1943 National Pact is an unwritten agreement that set the foundations of modern Lebanon as a multi-confessional state based on Christian-Muslim partnership.