Municipal elections: a minority wants to postpone

Why doesn't the government have much to lose, even if the electorate does not win anything? The scene is set up. On 4th May next, about 400,000 voters will be called to the polls to elect the 120 municipal councillors in the five cities of the country. Ten years after the last municipalities, pushed back three times under the former MSM regime, the exercise looks less like a democratic celebration than a late administrative formality. In this ...

Zaida Al-Kanj Al-Dandashi wrote in “Nidaa Al-Watan”: Between speculation about their occurrence and confusion about their postponement, the municipal elections are still between doubt and certainty, despite the announcement by the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Ahmed Al-Hajjar, on Wednesday to call on the voting bodies for the municipal elections in Mount Lebanon, stressing that elections are undoubtedly held regardless of what is bein…