The "Shiite Duo" is seeking support in the South Lebanon elections for this reason.

Muhammad Shuqair wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat: The insistence of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s government, through the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Brigadier General Ahmad Hajjar, on holding municipal elections in four stages, starting on May 4th and ending in the southern and Nabatieh governorates on the 25th, raises the question of whether the political climate allows for maintaining parity between Muslims and Christians in Beirut’s mun…