Qassem Says 'Everyone Wins' if New Electoral Law Reached

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem announced Thursday that “everyone would win” should a new electoral law be approved, urging the political parties to double their efforts in this regard.

“Should no new law be reached, God forbid, there would be no winner at all and everyone would lose from the absence of a new electoral law, especially that the three other choices – extension, the 1960 law and vacuum -- have been blasted by everyone,” Qassem added.

“This means that any approach that leads us anew to any of these three bad choices will not be correct or sound and will reflect negatively on everyone,” Hizbullah number two warned.

He noted that Hizbullah does not favor “any of these three bad choices, seeing as each of them has its problem.”

“Vacuum would terminate state institutions, shake stability, undermine confidence in Lebanon, harm the economy and aggravate the social crisis,” Qassem cautioned.

“It would be better for us all to seek a new law, and no matter the negativities that the new law might bring, they would certainly be less detrimental than the other three bad choices,” the Hizbullah official added, urging “mutual and logical concessions.”