LF officially files request for withdrawing confidence from Bou Habib
The Lebanese Forces-led Strong Republic bloc on Thursday filed a request for holding a parliamentary session aimed at voting on withdrawing confidence from Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib over “violations” related to expat voting.
The request accuses the Foreign Ministry of committing “grave violations” related to the preparations for parliamentary elections abroad.
“Directly or through its diplomatic missions, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has been repeating the attempts aimed at constraining the right of Lebanese expats to voting, in a manner that has started to jeopardize the integrity of the entire electoral process,” the bloc charged.
It said such violations include “distributing voters from the same area, village and family on several polling stations that are very distant from each other, which makes the voting process more difficult.”
The “violations” also include “refraining from handing over the electoral rolls to the relevant parties, which prevents them from knowing the number of delegates needed for each polling center.”
Source: Naharnet
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