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From the Astute Blogger:
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:
EURONEWS:
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IF LEBANON ELECTS HIZBALLAH, THEN THEY WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE: CIVIL WAR; SHARIA...
From the Astute Blogger:
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES:
EURONEWS:
The Lebanese are voting in parliamentary elections with the governing coalition awaiting the results nervously as it seeks to fend off a strong challenge from the Hezbollah-led opposition.CANADA.COM:
While voting is expected to pass off peacefully, the announcement of the results on Monday could spark trouble. Both national and international observers from the European Union are overseeing the vote.
“The European Union election observation mission is working with 100 observers and we’re going to cover roughly 20 % of the polling stations around the country. I think it’s really enough in order to get an idea of what is happening. But everything seems so far normal”, said Jose Ignacio Salafranca, chief of the EU team of observers.
Three point two million people are eligible to vote, and the Christian community is expected to swing the balance, split as it is between the Shi’ite Hezbollah backed by Syria and Iran, and the Sunni-led coalition.
In the event of a Hezbollah victory, it remains unclear whether Saad al-Hariri would join a national coalition.
Outside a polling station in the Lebanese Metn district, supporters of rival Christian groups camp out amicably under umbrellas urging voters to cast ballots in a parliamentary election on Sunday.
But ask Christian voters what will happen if the party they support loses, and the answers are instantly less friendly, with both sides accusing each other of dragging the country toward a bleak future.
Most of the 3.2 million Lebanese eligible to vote in Sunday's election cast their ballots based on sectarian affiliations.Sunnis are voting overwhelmingly for Saad al-Hariri's pro-Western alliance, Shi'ites for Syrian and Iranian-backed Hezbollah, but the mainly Maronite Christians are divided between the two camps, making them the key voters in this closely contested election.
- A HIZBALLAH VICTORY WOULD MEAN LEBANON WOULD BECOME ANOTHER GAZA, ANOTHER SWAT -
- AND IT WOULD MEAN THE FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY THERE.
- AND IT WOULD HAND ANOTHER ONE OF ISRAEL'S BORDER'S OVER TO IRAN.
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Foreign Policy: Foreign election officials amazed by trust-based U.S. voting system For the head of Libya's national election commission, the method by which Americans vote is startling in that it depends so much on trust and the good faith...
- Caliphate By Vote In Our Lifetime?
BBC:Voting has begun in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.Voters will elect a 217-seat assembly that will draft a new constitution and appoint an interim government.Islamist...
- The Powderkeg
This is not getting the print it should. With decisions waiting on the Hariri assassination, and if it is decided that leaders of Hezbollah and those close to Syrian President Assad were involved then Hezbollah, backed by Iran and resurgent in Lebanon,...
- Lebanon Fate Hangs In The Balance
A Lebanese woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot at a polling station in Beirut's Christian sector of Ashrafieh, Lebanon, Sunday, June 7, 2009. Lebanese streamed to their hometowns on the Mediterranean coast and high up in the...
- Hizballah Declares War On Lebanon
That's right, a political party within Lebanon has declared war on Lebanon. This political party is unlike any political party the United States has ever seen. They dominate certain territories of the country, they have their own television network...