Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said in an interview published on Monday that the electoral law which he prepared was divided into five parts for discussions in the cabinet.
Charbel told Al-Mustaqbal newspaper that “the first [round] of discussions will tackle the concept of proportionality, the second round will address the number of districts and the third will discuss the Independent Electoral Commission.”
“The fourth round of discussions will address preferential voting while the fifth will discuss expatriates’ participation in the elections and women [running in the parliamentary elections],” he added.
Lebanese parties are debating the electoral law for the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections. After the parliament agreed on drafting a law based on proportional representation, some parties rejected the proposed law and called for adopting the 2009 electoral law, which is based on simple majority representation.
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