Municipal elections in Mount lebanon in pictures

May 2, 2010 ⋅ 11:57 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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An elderly Lebanese woman shows her inked thumb after casting her ballot during the municipal elections in Amchit on the coast north of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, May 2, 2010.

The polling stations closed in Mount Lebanon with Jbeil district recording the highest voting percentage of 65%. Interior Minister Ziad Baroud said at at a press conference that overall Mount Lebanon voter turnout was approximately 59 %.

The interior minister said that compared to problems in past elections, Sunday’s problems were small.
Vote count began and initial election results started coming in. According to National News Agency the following initial results were reported :

Aanout list and consensus list wins in Dalhoun

Continuity and development list wins in lower Wadi Shahrour

The Achievement and Development electoral list won in Araya.

A Lebanese man casts his ballot during the municipal elections in the mountain town of Baalchmay, east of Beirut

Preliminary results announced for Baabdat Broumana and Roumiyah
The entire Halat Decision electoral list won.
Kesrouan district:Zouk Mosbeh list, Kfour list, members of Ghadras list, four members of Carlos Merheb list,Ashqout list and Bat’ha list.
Victory declared for the Loyalty and Development alliance which includes Hezbollah and AMAL families in Borj al-Barajneh.
Victory declared for the Bhamdoun municipal electoral list headed by Abu Rjeili.
Victory declared for “Shiyah Unity First” list will all 18 members. It won 2,900 of 3,200 votes.

In Mount Lebanon, almost 800,000 Lebanese were electing municipal councils and mukhtars, or mayors.

Polling stations opened at 7 am (04H00 GMT) and closed 12 hours later.

Out of a total of 313 municipalities, 56 councils are not being contested as consensus lists have been agreed amid a political calm in Lebanon since a national unity government was formed last November.

More than 7,500 candidates, including 466 women, are contesting 3,507 seats, after a proposal by Interior Minister Ziad Baroud to bring in a quota system for women failed to win approval in parliament.

Some 20,000 security personnel have been mobilised for the polling, Lebanon’s first local elections since 2004.

Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman casts his vote during the country's municipal elections at a polling station in his hometown of Amchit

The final official results will be announced on Monday according to the ministry of interior

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Constantin

It is just a municipal elections for heaven’s sake! Why are we doing all this fuss about it I can’t comprehend. I guess the Lebanese culture has changed so much that now every one is waiting for any occasion to “screw” the other and make an EVENT out of it.
I feel we’re becoming smaller and smaller in our minds and approaches and we are completely out of touch with the big picture which we are allowing foreign nations to control in our place.

Mabrouk aalaykon the municipal elections!!!!

What is the next (small) thing you are going to occupy us with…?
Nabih

yiu got that right, but remember, there are five more similar elections to go on the next few weeks…. that will keep everyone occupied before the summer….people have to wise up and see the big picture Yes, such as jobs, electricity, traffic, roads, deforestation of the whole country, emigration of the young and bright… you can go on forever……
Tony A

small things lead to bigger things ya shabab. to change a people all systems adopt very small changes so that in time, every small change leads to the evntual goal of that system.

these municipal elections are a symbolism of the greater goal of voting with no regard to religion so, we must always look at the bigger picture in life and in our daily affairs in order to always maintain a broader outlook on our paths.

so nabih, right on dude with your big picture comment but these elections are for people to vote in the right candidates who will attempt to do the very points you addressed and that i’ve been talking about in some of my comments.

i have also hoped that Ya Libnan would follow some of my encouragements by bombarding the media with those points you stated so that people can put pressure on the elected to do some improvements in those areas and to date, we have only seen one article about the electricity problem.

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