The delegates of the Lebanese Forces-backed list have been expelled Sunday from the towns of Riha and Knaissein in the Baalbek-Hermel region, LF chief Samir Geagead said in a tweet.
The tweet was addressed to Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi.
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MP Osama Saad on Sunday launched an unprecedented verbal attack on Hizbullah and the Amal Movement, his former allies in the southern city of Sidon.
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Two soldiers were injured Sunday in an armed attack in the Akkar area of Dahr Nassar, in an incident whose motives remain unknown until the moment.
Full StoryPresident Michel Aoun cast Sunday his vote in Haret Hreik, urging all Lebanese to vote as he said that "the citizen cannot be impartial in the important issue of choosing the political system."
Earlier, Prime Minister Najib Miqati had wished for a better tomorrow as he voted in his hometown Tripoli.
Full StoryIt was a sea of yellow as thousands of men, women and children waving Hizbullah flags and wearing the group's trademark yellow caps rallied on a giant plot of land in the ancient eastern city of Baalbek in support of the heavily armed militant group.
One after another, many attendees vowed to vote for the Shiite Muslim Hizbullah and its allies, rejecting any attempt to disarm the powerful group.
Full StoryLebanon held its first election Sunday since a painful economic crisis dragged it to the brink of becoming a failed state, a major test for new opposition groups bent on ousting the ruling elite.
But few observers expected a seismic shift, with all levers of political power firmly in the hands of traditional sectarian parties and an electoral system seen as rigged in their favor.
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Ballot boxes for Sunday’s parliamentary elections were distributed Saturday to polling stations across Lebanon, as security forces began their deployment around voting centers.
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday snapped back at Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil over his latest remarks against the LF, a few hours before the country enters electoral silence for Sunday’s parliamentary elections.
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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Friday said anew that he is in favor of “peace with Israel,” while adding that such a peace would have its “conditions.”
Full StoryHizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday called on supporters to vote Sunday against “those conspiring against the resistance and its arms.”
“Voting on election day will be a message to all those conspiring against the resistance and its arms and against the future of the Lebanese,” Nasrallah said in a televised address during Hizbullah’s electoral rally in the Bekaa.
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