Christian opposition to run in elections despite ‘unfair law’
By Majdoline Hatoum
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Christian opposition said it will contest the country’s elections despite their insistence that the election process discriminates against Christians.
The opposition finally quelled speculation that it would boycott this month’s polls following a meeting of its Qornet Shehwan Gathering under the aegis of Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir.
Sfeir is one of the most vocal critics of the country’s election law, which was devised in 2000 when Syrian hegemony was at its most pervasive in Lebanon.
Following the meeting, opposition MP Butros Harb said: “We will deal with the 2000 electoral law as a status-quo, which we refuse, but will go through elections according to the law in order to protect people’s rights.”