Berri Adjourns Legislative Meeting to June 16

Speaker Nabih Berri adjourned until June 16 a parliament session that was scheduled to convene on Monday to address Lebanon's parliamentary electoral law.

June 16 session will convene at 2:00 at noon.

The country's main political parties have recently agreed that the new electoral law should be fully based on proportional representation and 15 electoral districts but they are still wrangling over the electoral system's mechanisms and technicalities, especially those related to the representation of sects.

The Speaker has recurrently adjourned the meeting of the parliament, paving way for political parties to reach common ground on the law before the term of the legislature ends on June 20.

Lebanon has not organized parliamentary elections since 2009 and the legislature has since extended its own term twice. The second extended term will expire on June 20.