Future bloc MP Amin Wehbe voiced his objection over the Orthodox plan for a new electoral law, saying that “it partitions Lebanese society” into different religious sects.
During an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah, Wehbe mainly objected to “the idea that each sect [in Lebanon] elects its own parliamentarians.”
The Future bloc MP told the daily that a Lebanese MP represents all Lebanese people - not only those from their religious community.
During a Christian gathering held at Bkriki on Friday, Christian leaders and MPs assigned a commission to consult with all “national components” to draft a parliamentary electoral law based on the Orthodox proposal.
The Orthodox plan on the electoral law states that citizens should vote for candidates from their own sect.
The Orthodox plan on the electoral law states that citizens should vote for candidates from their own sect.
Lebanese parties are presently 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.
In a separate interview, Future bloc MP Ammar Houri told As-Seyassah that the Future Movement “has not yet taken a position in complete support for any electoral law.”
Houri added that his group considers the Taif Accord to be the primary basis upon which any electoral law must be founded.
The Taif Accord negotiated the end of the 15-year Lebanese civil war and called for political reform, including shifting power away from the Maronite Christian community. The Accord also established special relations between Lebanon and Syria.
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