The Election Law in Lebanon

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 The election law in Lebanon should be based on the 2 main ethnicities that make the Lebanese people; those are the Aramean Christians and the Arab Muslims.

The Christian people of Lebanon should elect all parliament members intended for them. The best way is when Aramean and Armenian Christian votes for own candidates to fill the 64 Christian seats. The Arab Muslims get also to vote for their 64 representatives. The Arameans in Lebanon are members of Churches of the Maronites, Greek Orthodox, Melkite, Catholic, Syriac, Assyrian, Chaldean and various Protestant Churches. The Arabs of Lebanon belong to the religious groups of various Sunni and Shiite directions or derived from the Muslim sphere. Other ethnicities should also be represented through one of those 2 main directions; those are the Armenian, the Kurdish and the Coptic minorities. The Jewish Lebanese should also be represented in parliament with at least one seat. The parliament should therefore consist of either 129 or 139 or 149 members. 

 The age of voting should be 18 years as most countries in the world already have.

 The Lebanese Diaspora should be able to vote through the embassies, consulates and other Lebanese institutions like the national Churches across the world. The votes should go to any candidate and not only be limited to candidates from the Diaspora.  

 Elections should be held in 2013 according to the constitution that is clear regarding the 4 years period of every mandate time.

 The regions in Lebanon that are under the rule of weapon by different militant groups having agendas belonging to foreign intelligence bureaus should not see elections until the Lebanese state regain full control over all the territories of Lebanon. Those regions are mainly the Shiite Hezbullah controlled Bekaa Valley province, except the Zahle district and the entire South Province except the Saida and Jezzine districts. Another district that should be disarmed before they can have elections is Tripoli in the North province. Sunni and Alawite groups there are armed and form a direct threat to the free will of the people. Beirut should be divided in 2 districts, the Arabs and the Kurds in the western parts and the Aramean and Armenian in East Beirut.

 Any new election law in Lebanon needs to be fair to the Christian societies taking in consideration the fact that the historical Lebanese issue is not about religions. It is about 2 ethnicities trying to live in one state and one identity where reality is something else.