The Lebanese Election Law: Part 2

Every patriotic Muslim in Lebanon must approve any election law the Christians agrees on, this is because it doesnt effect their representation negativly but only helps the Christians to feel equaly again with their fellow citizens.

The Christians have since 1992 been on different levels missrepresented in parliament and in most state institutions. Any new law this time must come for the change of this bad habit that started when the second republic was born in 1990 with the total occupation of the Syrian Arab Army allowing the Muslim politicians and masses plus some Christian politicians to rule the country while the Christian masses refused the occupation and saw themself being outside the governmental sphere.

Any election law today must be according to the idea that all citizens are equal and have the right to choose candidates from their own groups. If a person in Lebanon that wants to candidate must do it according to what religious group he belongs to, then why cant the one voting for them also be from the same group?.

 In Lebanon, the common citizen is easily referred to their religious ideology, while the right division actually should be after their ethnic affiliation. The Lebanese people are in general eather Aramean Christians or Arab Muslims with some exeption minorities like the Armenians and Kurds.

If we can agree on this historical fact then we will not always need to include religions in our daily politics and ruling system. When this is behind us we can start to focus on modern ways to rule the country like decentralisation, federation, confederation or anything else that let every people to live and prosper the way it aspire and corporate with fellow Lebanese in the most friendly way.

 The orthodox gathering electoral law makes every religious group choose its own candidates and that is better than the existing law and all other drafts put on the table to this date. It has other risks but most Christians consider it as a damage worth it. What is even better is if we sort people according to their ethnicity and keep the electoral districts according to their historical boundaries. The groups will have as many seats as today with a small enlargment to include small groups that has yet not been represented in parliament.

 The new parliament can be made of 139 members instead of the 128 of today. The new seats should on the Christians side go to one Syriac orthodox, one Syriac catolique, one Copt, one Assyrian/Chaldean and one Protestant (This coould be regulated within the groups). On the Muslim side it can be one sunni Kurd, two sunni Arabs and two shia Arabs ( This could be regulated within the groups). The seat number 139 should go to the Lebanese Jews, this is a group of Lebanese that have been historicly loyal and succesful in Lebanon but has since the 1975 war been mostly living abroad, their number have passed 15000 and should be represented because they are not counted on neather the Christian nor the Muslim sides.

 If the Lebanese can not decide on one united law, then every main religion or ethnic group should have their own election law.