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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hariri predicts landslide opposition victory
2005-05-17
Saad Hariri, the son of slain former Premier Rafik Hariri, predicted Monday that the anti-Syrian opposition generated from the February 14 bomb blast would win a landslide in the upcoming parliamentary polls. In an interview with AFP, Hariri pledged a "white revolution against the police state which governed Lebanon during 15 years" - a reference to Syria and its allies. "The opposition will win between 80 and 90 seats," in the 128-member Parliament in the elections due to kick off on May 29, he said.

Hariri, 35, announced on Sunday a powerhouse list of 19 candidates for Beirut's three multi-member constituencies, which will be the first to go to the polls in Lebanon's phased elections. Ten of them are Christians and the rest Muslims, and they include a number of unlikely political alliances between former arch-foes from Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. Hariri's list includes Solange Gemayel, widow of slain president-elect and Christian warlord Bashir Gemayel, the only candidate for Beirut's Maronite Christian seat, and Hizbullah candidate Amin Sherri for one of the two Shiite seats. Saad Hariri's list is expected to sweep the capital's three electora
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