De Freige criticizes Orthodox electoral law proposal
20/12/2011
Future bloc MP Nabil De Freige said on Tuesday that the majority of the participants in the Bkirki Christian meeting were against the Orthodox proposal on the electoral law.
“Eighty percent of the participants in the Bkirki meeting are against the Orthodox proposal on the electoral law, but there has been a maneuvering on the matter,” De Freige told LBC.
De Freige also said that the aforementioned proposal “is a sectarian” one, and called for adopting Fouad Boutros’ draft electoral draft law.
The Orthodox proposal on the electoral law states that citizens should vote for candidates of their own sects.
The Fouad Boutros law called for a proportional representation system with a mixture of caza-based votes and mohafaza-based votes; setting a 30% minimum quota for women on voting lists; lowering the voting age from 21 to 18; allowing registered Lebanese abroad to vote; giving the option of voting near one’s place of residence; counting of votes at the caza-level rather than the village or neighborhood level, which allows less room for vote-buying and pressure to vote for certain lists; establishing an Independent Electoral Commission (IEC); restricting campaign finance; and regulating media coverage during electoral campaigns.
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