RECENT ELECTIONS

Description of Electoral System:

(courtesy of IFES election guide)

The President is elected by the National Assembly to serve a 6-year term. In the National Assembly (Majlis Alnuwab) 128 members are elected by popular vote on the basis of sectarian proportion to serve 4-year terms.

Presidential Elections 2008:  

Lebanon's parliament elected the army commander, Gen. Michel Suleiman, as president on May 25, 2008, filling a post vacant for six months, ending the country's worst crisis since the civil war that ended in 1990. Read profile

Conferences & Workshops

The National Commission on Electoral Law, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform held a National Conference on an "Electoral Law Tailor-Made for the Nation" at the Phoenicia Hotel Wednesday. More details under electoral news.

Electoral Systems Snapshot

(Courtesy of International IDEA)

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Most recent election

(courtesy of wikipedia)

The 2005 Lebanese General Elections were the first elections in thirty years without a Syrian military or intelligence presence in Lebanon. The Lebanese elected 128 MPs, with equal representation for Christians and Muslims. These elections were the first in Lebanese history to be won outright by a single electoral block and were also the first to be monitored by the United Nations (United Nations, October 26, 2005 S/2005/673).