Residents of the southern city of Tyre set up two tents on Wednesday to protest against Lebanon’s confessional system.
The National News Agency reported that the protest will be ongoing and synchronized with similar ones in different regions of the country.
Lebanon's government system is rooted in a 1943 power-sharing agreement along confessional lines adopted after the country acquired its independence from France.
In order to maintain a balance between the 18 religious sects in the country, the agreement calls for the president to be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister to be a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament a Shia Muslim.
Other government jobs are also allocated according to religious affiliation.
-NOW Lebanon
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