Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
against the electoral law’s amendments, which means that the adjustments will go into effect and that no six new seats will be dedicated to expats.
Admitting that the no-ruling can be considered a "flop" for the Council, Judge Tannous Meshleb, the Council’s chief, said "the appeal would not have resolved Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...’s crisis."
"The elections would have happened anyway," Meshleb added, noting that the Council "failed to secure the needed majority for all the points."
"We have failed to reach a unified stance," he said.
Responding to a news hound’s question about possible political interference in the Council’s work, Meshleb said: "No one has asked us to take a certain decision."
Meshleb also denied the presence of a "sectarian" rift in the Council, while noting that the no-ruling means that elections in the 16th district, dedicated to expats, will be postponed to 2026.