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Daily Star, Lebanon
Summary: A proposal has been
made to elect Parliamentary seats in Lebanon using full
representation (proportional representation). In this article, a
Lebanese Member of Parliament registers his opinion against full
representation. Currently, Lebanon uses a form of at-large plurality
voting known as party block, where a party winning a plurality of
the votes in a multiple member district receives all the seats in
that district.
Daily Star, Lebanon
Karami says ���small election district��� best
A small election district is best in a ���sectarian
country like Lebanon,��� according to Tripoli MP Omar Karami. The
former prime minister weighed in on the election law debate during a
meeting in Tripoli with Beirut MP Mohammed Qabbani. Karami was also
responding to Speaker Nabih Berri���s suggestion to use proportional
representation in the 2005 round for roughly half of the
legislature���s 128 seats. ���I���ve been involved in elections for 40
years,��� Karami said, ���and in my opinion, sound representation in a
sectarian country like Lebanon will not be based on proportional
representation, and not on these theories that are proposed, but on
a election law based on small districts.��� Karami added that fair
elections required an election law that protected the public from
���money, pressure and security agencies.��� |
