The Daily Star - President Sleiman calls for modern electoral law - September 05, 2011

BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman spoke over the weekend about the importance of improving Lebanon’s democracy by implementing a modern electoral law based on true representation of Lebanon’s many factions.
“We should improve our democratic performance and preserve it by implementing reforms, primarily a modern electoral law that is based on true representation of Lebanese factions,” Sleiman said after he met Saturday with a delegation from the National Association of Culture and Heritage.
“True representation facilitates the governing process on all levels and grants rights to every person ... Lebanon has many points of strengths which help make its democracy a model one for the world today.”
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel launched a workshop in July to prepare an electoral law for the parliamentary elections in 2013, setting a three-month deadline to finish the mission.
The preliminary draft is said to be based on a proportional representation system and to include the establishment of an independent committee to run elections and the use of pre-printed ballots.