Election Fever Hits Lebanon, Nine Years since Last Legislative Vote

As its first parliamentary vote in nearly a decade approaches, Lebanon has been swept into campaign fever: posters on every corner, televised debates, and neighbors bickering over new electoral procedures, said an Agence France Presse report on Wednesday. Stakes are high in the long-awaited May 6 poll, the first test of Lebanon's 2017 voting law, that will carve out the country's political and economic trajectory for years to come. Voters and candidates alike are eager for polling to start, nearly ten years after the last parliamentary elections in June 2009. The 128 lawmakers elected

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