Karami files appeal against Tripoli elections results

Ex-MP Faisal Karami, one of many pro-Syria politicians who lost their seats in the May parliamentary elections, announced Tuesday that he has filed an appeal against the results of the elections before the Constitutional Council.

“These elections were marred by major flaws, several violations, frenzied financial spending and the biggest operation of buying consciences that Lebanon has witnessed, not to mention the incitement in the media and the unprecedented campaigns,” Karami said at a press conference.

He also decried the “excessive primitiveness” in the counting of votes.

“We have faced injustice and theft and here we are resorting to the constitutional judiciary, represented in the Constitutional Council, asking it and its president and esteemed members to lift injustice against the aggrieved and to return the right to its owners,” Karami went on to say, noting that his file is “complete and strong.”

Al-Jadeed TV had earlier reported that Karami’s lawyer Wadih Akl had filed an appeal against “the parliamentary membership of each of the MPs Rami Fanj, Ehab Matar and Firas al-Salloum, because according to the proportional law, appeals must be filed against individuals.”