Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said on Friday that if the efforts that are being made to adopt a system of proportional representation seek to target “what is left of the PSP’s influence, then we have understood the message,” the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
Jumblatt called during an interview with Al-Manar television for adopting the 2009 electoral law during the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections.
Lebanese parties are presently debating the electoral law for the future 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.
Although the PSP leader voiced his objections to proportionality, he said that embracing such a system of representation “was a demand made by the Lebanese National Movement [and left-wing party] led by Kamal Jumblatt [during the Lebanese civil war], but the circumstances today have changed.”
Kamal Jumblatt is father to Walid Jumblatt and was assassinated in 1977.
Jumblatt said that due to the sectarian situation in Lebanon “the influence of the PSP has become limited within the Druze community.”
The Druze leader said that “before discussing proportionality, talks should be held over the means to protect diversity [in Lebanon]” and limit the distribution of money for electoral gains.
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