Lebanese Electoral Legislation

Proposal for a balanced Legislation

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Lebanese Electoral Legislation

Proposal for a balanced Legislation
The motivation behind this proposal is to come up with a proposal that will resolve most of the concerns of the variety of the Lebanese political elements and religious groups. Currently the main concern is that the electoral power of the Lebanese religious groups is not equally exerted among all groups. The Proposed Legislation (a.k.a the rayan jreije proposal) will tackle all religious groups concerns without affecting the patriotic bond between all religious groups, and without breaking any of the constitution fundamentals.

Fundamentals behind the Rayan Jreije Electoral Law

The proposed Electoral Law can be summarized as follows: 1- Each religious group will have to elect representatives from all other religious groups based on his Electoral power. 2- A religious group Electoral power is calculated as the ratio of the number of seats for this religious group divided by the total number of Parliament seats (128) 3- Election districts are not divided geographically but based on religion. 4- Lebanon is divided into 11 non geographical districts. One district per religious group, but this district can elect seats from other religious groups. 5- Within each district voice count is not based on majority but based on relativity (nisbiyye)

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Tabular Details of Elective districts

The Rayan Jreije Electoral Law can be summarized in the following table:

D I S T R I C T

Confession

S E A T S

Elect. Powe r

M A R O N I T E 12 3 2 1 0 0 0 7 7 0 2
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O R T H O D O X

C A T H O L I C

A R M. O R T H.

A R M. C A T H.

P R O T E S T A N T 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1

O T H R. C H R S. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1

S U N N I

S H I I T E

A L A W I T E

D R U Z E

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Maronite Greek Orthodox Greek Catholic Armenian Orthodox Armenian Catholic Protestant Other Christians Sunni Shi'ite Alawite Druze
Total

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14 8 5 1 1 1 27 27 2 8 128

26.5 % 10.9 % 6.2 % 3.9 % 0.7 % 0. 7 % 0.7% 21 % 21 % 1.5 % 6.2 %

3 7 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0
14

2 0 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
8

1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
5

0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1

7 2 1 1 0 0 0 10 5 0 1
27

7 2 1 1 0 0 0 5 10 0 1
27

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
2

2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 4
8

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Summary of Districts
District 1: Maronites Voters
12 Maronite Seats, 3 Greek Orthodox Seats, 2 Greek Catholics Seats, 1 Armenian Orthodox Seats, 7 Sunni Seats, 7 Shiite Seats, 2 Druz Seats

District 2: Greek Orthodox Voters

3 Maronite Seats, 7 Greek Orthodox Seats, 2 Sunni Seats, 2 Shiite Seats

District 3: Greek Catholic Voters

2 Maronite Seats, 4 Greek Catholic Seats, 1 Sunni Seat, 1 Shiite Seat

District 4: Armenian Orthodox Voters

1 Maronite Seat, 2 Armenian Orthodox Seats, 1 Sunni Seat, 1 Shiite Seat

District 5: Armenian Catholic Voters

1 Armenian Catholic Seat

District 6: Protestant Voters

1 Protestant Seat

District 7: Other Christians (minorities)

1 Other Christians Seat

District 8: Sunni Voters

7 Maronite Seats, 2 Greek Orthodox Seats, 1 Greek Catholic Seat, 1 Armenian Orthodox Seat, 10 Sunni Seats, 5 Shiite Seats, 1 Druz Seat

District 9: Shiite Voters

7 Maronites Seats, 2 Greek Orthodox Seats, 1 Greek Catholics Seat, 1 Armenian Orthodox Seat, 5 Sunni Seats, 10 Shiite Seats, 1 Druz Seat

District 10: Alawite Voters

2 Alawite Seats

District 11: Druz Voters

2 Maronite Seats, 1 Sunni Seat, 1 Shiite Seat, 4 Druz Seats

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Conclusion and remarks

The Rayan Jreije Electoral Legislation for Lebanon will ensure gradual integration of the Lebanese people irrespective of their religious group, and will be the first step toward disabling all fanaticism among Lebanese people, and will give Lebanon a stable political system for years to come. Attached is an excel sheet that shows how the distribution of seats among voters from different religious groups was Calculated based on the electoral power of this religious group. Further explanation of this New Electoral Law can be discussed and obtained from Rayan Jreije that can be contacted at: +306932415158 or Rayan@ccc.gr