Al-Mustaqbal, PSP to Resume Talks over Hybrid Electoral Law Sunday
Al-Mustaqbal MP Ahmed Fatfat revealed on Sunday that talks will resume with the Progressive Socialist Party later in the day over a hybrid electoral law.
“We will resume discussions on Sunday although Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement reject the adoption of such a law, which threatens the polls,” Fatfat said in comments published in An Nahar newspaper.
Al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Wednesday that Hizbullah informed Speaker Nabih Berri that it rejected the hybrid proposal that al-Mustaqbal and PSP are seeking to draft.
The hybrid draft-law combines the winner-takes-all and proportional representation systems but the main obstacle to a deal among the different blocs lies in the division of districts.
President Michel Suleiman and Premier Najib Miqati have signed a decree that sets the elections on June 9 based on the 1960 law that was used in the 2009 polls over the lack of agreement between the bickering parliamentary blocs.
Their call have drawn the ire of the March 8 majority coalition which has totally rejected the law.
A consensus over an electoral law has yet to be reached after the Orthodox Gathering's proposal that considers Lebanon a single district and allows each sect to vote for its own MPs under a proportional representation system, was opposed by Suleiman, Miqati, al-Mustaqbal bloc, the PSP, and the independent Christian MPs of the March 14 opposition, saying it harms the social fabric and increases sectarian tension.
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