Municipality of Tripoli Witnesses Mass Resignations in Protest of Performance
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The municipality of the northern city of Tripoli witnessed mass resignations in protest of the performance of its head, forcing Tripoli to join the municipal by-elections that will take place on May 6.
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday that 10 members of Tripoli’s municipal council submitted their resignations, and the number will likely reach 13.
Tripoli’s municipal council includes 22 members in addition to the municipal chief Nader Ghazal and his deputy.
The resignation of half-plus-one members of the council would force its collapse.
Ghazal confirmed the reports to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).
However, he said that the number of the resigned members doesn’t yet force the collapse of the current municipal council.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel announced in March that the municipal by-elections will take place on May 6.
The local polls will replace the dissolved municipal councils since 2010.
10 April 2012, 11:41
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انا لم ارى في طرابلس اي تقدم في عهد هذه البلدية, فقط فوضى و زحمة سير و حفريات و قطع طرق و مربعات امنية جديدة و عربات خضار على الارصفة و محسوبيات و غيرهز
10 April 2012, 12:01
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Question for tose who might know - Who appoints the members of the municipal councels and how?
10 April 2012, 15:38
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Well the people vote for the municipality members and then those members choose two of them to become president and a VP. Of course in big cities the election is very politicized.
15 April 2012, 16:15
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History in Lebanon proves again, honest people has no place for them in a country built on corruption and highway rubbery. Dr. Ghazal is a victim of this corruption
