Election results show the Lebanese people voted for change with unexpected breakthroughs by emerging and independent candidates. But with no one holding a clear majority in Parliament, political paralysis is the most likely outcome
In early April, the country reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund to release around $3 billion of financial assistance in return for a series of key structural reforms – which the incoming government will be tasked with implementing. While this is not enough to get Lebanon out of the depths of its crisis, proponents believe it could be a building block towards economic recovery. $68 to $69 billion.
“Considering the call for a boycott from the Sunni community, the fact there is an overwhelming economic crisis and that fuel prices are so high that many people could not go to vote, having the same turnout as 2018 is an extraordinary feat,” Jouhari argued. While some former Future Movement MPs decided to run as independents, in the capital Beirut some Hariri supporters were seen holding pool parties on Sunday instead of heading to the polls, in a symbolic protest against what they see is as a façade election as they argue it is Hezbollah, often referred to as a state within a state, that runs the country regardless of what the Lebanese choose at the ballot box.
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