President Michel Sleiman called on Thursday for adopting the Fouad Boutros electoral draft law.
“If lebanon wants to correct its political path, the electoral law
proposed by the Commission on Electoral Law headed by [former Foreign
Affairs and Emigrants] Minister Fouad Boutros must be implemented,
amended or not,” Sleiman was quoted by the National News Agency as
saying.
Sleiman also said that “the current electoral law had expired.”
The Fouad Boutros law called for many things, among them a
proportional representation system with a mixture of caza-based votes
and mohafaza-based votes; setting a 30% minimum quota for women on
voting lists; lowering the voting age from 21 to 18; allowing
registered Lebanese abroad to vote; giving the option of voting near
one’s place of residence; counting of votes at the caza-level rather
than the village or neighborhood level, which allows less room for
vote-buying and pressure to vote certain lists; establishing an
Independent Electoral Commission (IEC); restricting campaign finance;
and regulating media coverage during electoral campaigns.
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