As promised, I’m beginning my endorsements of electoral lists throughout Lebanon this week with a bit over 30 days left until the elections.
I’ll begin with my residence district: North Lebanon III.
This district combines Zgharta, Bsharreh, Koura and Batroun into one electoral district. It’s undoubtedly some of the consequential in Lebanon, and for a number of causes.
The primary is that it contains the hometown of a number of Sulta presidential hopefuls, equivalent to US-sanctioned and Nasrallah’s first lieutenant Gebran Bassil, Assad’s finest good friend Sleiman Frangieh and Saudi-sponsored wartime militia chief Samir Geagea. The second, is that this district had the very best charge of diaspora voter registration in comparison with the opposite 14.
Foremost Causes Why I’m Voting Shamaluna
At the beginning, they constructed a broad sufficient coalition the proper approach: by referring again to the voters, not inner occasion committees.
As most different districts grapple with petty politics and smear campaigns run by nameless accounts, in hopes of getting an even bigger piece of the record’s seats, Shamaluna did away with all that and efficiently ran the first ever major elections in Lebanon’s historical past.
I talked about this at size with Michel Douaihy, who was one of many winners of the first elections in Zgharta, my residence district. You may take heed to it under:
And simply to elaborate how efficient this was, Shamluna didn’t must do unpopular compromises with figures that aren’t fully in tune with the beliefs of October 17, 2019. They didn’t have to compromise or accommodate anybody.
One of many candidates working is near Charbel Nahhas’ political occasion, a celebration I’m not a fan of in any respect, however she received truthful and sq. and I’d be silly to assume I do know higher than Batroun’s personal unbiased voters.
Nevertheless, simply so that you perceive what sort of man Charbel Nahhas is, as an alternative of respecting that certainly one of his supporters obtained a mandate from Shamaluna major voters, he desires to name all the photographs solely, and has launched a rival record comprised of solely his partisans with completely no hope of successful, simply to remove votes from Shamaluna. Think about working a listing simply to spite one which was democratically fashioned, doesn’t embrace a single Sulta-linked (previous or current) candidate, simply so you can also make an out of contact previous man that was Aoun’s minister twice, completely satisfied…
Shamaluna are crystal lear on sovereignty. They’re crystal clear on civil rights. They’re crystal clear on a secular, progressive Lebanon. Additionally they aren’t promising Gebran Bassil stage delusions of metro and low cost electrical energy, and know that it’s going to take a lot of labor to first, cease the collapse the Sulta brought about and second, start to undo all of the harm the sectarian political events of the previous 4 a long time have carried out. You may be taught extra concerning the Shamaluna record right here.
You too can test all 10 candidates right here.
As for my preferential vote, I’d give it to many of the 10 candidates working, however my vote will go to Michel Douaihy in my hometown of Zgharta and if you wish to know why, simply take heed to the dialog we had this week.
