Mansour to Remind Missions about Submitting Names of Expatriates Willing to Vote
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Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said on Thursday that he will send the Lebanese diplomatic missions a reminder about the importance of submitting the names of the expatriates who want to vote during the 2013 parliamentary elections.
An Nahar newspaper reported that the efforts exerted by the missions are insufficient as most reminders are posted on the walls of the embassies or consulates. But most expatriates don’t head to these centers.
Earlier this week, the newspaper published a report by the Foreign Ministry on the numbers of Lebanese expatriates expected to vote during the 2013 polls.
Lebanon’s political parties are eying the Lebanese in foreign countries in order to mobilize supporters to get a boost in the upcoming elections.
Lebanese officials are working on formulating an electoral draft law that ensures a sound parliamentary representation of sects.
However, there’s no agreement yet over the issue, as the Maronite leaders agreed on the Orthodox Gathering’s proposals which called for each sect to elect its own MPs based on the proportional representation.
The proposal was rejected by a number of officials including Interior Minister Marwan Charbel who is tasked with preparing the new electoral draft law.
26 January 2012, 09:49
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how do they expect people to be informed or even head to foreign missions. In certain countries the Lebanese missions are a plain joke and the people in charge are even worse. Diplomats are supposed to engage the community in their areas of interest and work with individuals in ensuring the community's overall wellbeing. Sadly, foreign diplomatic posts are, for some, a long paid holiday.
26 January 2012, 10:13
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The embassies have collected our contact information many times...so how come they dont use technology (i.e. email for instance or maybe phone if it is simple for them) to contact us...is it too much to ask...
They are posting this on the wall of the embassies...what a joke. By the way, I live in California and the embassy is in DC. How on earth will I know about this? I don't hang out next to the embassy every day to see the freeking wall ... so I hope our diplomatic missions staff stop drinking coffee all day long and do one thing right for a change.
26 January 2012, 11:16
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this guy has to be one of the least smart (to use political correct word)politicians in the modern era.
There is others i dislike, but at least you can see they are sharp as foxes.
not this poor cookie
26 January 2012, 14:32
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Let's be honest, Hizballa, Amal and the rest of M8 don't want the expatriates to vote because the vast majority is clearly patriotic, against Hizb, Syria and pro M14. Now this little foreign minister is following Berri's instructions and trying to be sneaky and outsmart the expatriates. It is an obvious ploy that will not work. We are Lebanese and we've seen many of your dirty disgusting kind. Wake up M8 before it's too late.
26 January 2012, 15:36
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To Hanna
I beg to disagree...
He seems pretty smart to me...The law says that embassies must advertise the Election Policy in some manner...but it didn't specify how. So he figured out that by posting it on embassy walls, it would still be legally an "Advertisement" while at the same time suiting his purpose of not reaching any potential constituent....And he could have gotten away with it...Clever indeed.
26 January 2012, 15:51
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the filthy zionist information war department halucinate that if lebanese across the worlds vote that their parties will win.
no they won't. here where i live, almost everyone (and there is a lot of us) will vote hezb'allah.
suckers.
26 January 2012, 15:52
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and those who won't vote hezb'allah will vote aoun.
you suckers.
your side will be defeated on next elections with so much difference that you won't believe it for next 4 years.
26 January 2012, 16:10
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To Jabal Habal
Hummm if I remember correctly M8 lost both 2005 & 2009 election - you didn't get a majority.
The only reason M8 came to power was by putting a gun at Jumblat's head and forcing him to switch side again
So with what is going on in Syria right now - what makes your feeble mind think that you will win in the next election - unless M8 use their position in power to rigg it.
26 January 2012, 18:18
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As long as the filthy Zionist/CIA infested Islamic Revolution in Lebanon behind this guy controls the foreign ministry the expats will never get the right to vote. Consecutive foreign ministers and directors general of immigrants, from al bee2at al hadinat for Zionist spies and bomb planting saints, have stalled, obstructed, stonewalled and invented all kinds of excuses to block the Lebanese nationals residing abroad from voting.
26 January 2012, 18:48
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yes allouchi you should call it the islamic republic of dahiye because they don t seem part of lebanon anymore....
27 January 2012, 01:55
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the filthy zionist information war department is hallucinating that m8 need any illegal measures to win next elections
