Electoral monitoring authority: new appointment or extension? The Alankabout Spider – Lebanon News – Australia News

During the two-month period, the Lebanese arena attends a minor election in the Tire district, following the resignation of MP Nawaf al-Moussawi. According to the law on the election of members of the House of Representatives of Lebanon, the government must organize under-elections within two months of the vacancy. In this regard, some ministerial circles have begun to ask a question about the appointment of the Election Oversight Body, especially as Article 11 of the Law on Parliamentary Elections considers that the Commission's mandate ends six months after the date of completion of the general legislative elections. The ministers will designate the members of the Commission one month before the end of the term of the existing authority. Thus, the old body was considered to have resigned since October 2018. The Council of Ministers was to appoint a new body in September 2018. But this date being that of the transitional government, it therefore remained under the title of continuity of the General Fund. .

After the formation of the current government went to study other topics, including the budget and others, did not come on the appointment of the supervision of parliamentary elections, was canceled at the name of MP Dima Jamali, and re-elected in by-elections in the city of Tripoli. During this period – that is, the by-election period in Tripoli – no commentary or circular issued by the Commission has been recorded, so that the call of any winning candidate can to be the subject of an appeal. The case of any winning candidate in the forthcoming elections in the district of Tire, which points out that "the government will designate the election control within a period not exceeding two weeks in accordance with legal deadlines while that". there are only 53 days left for the government to hold the by-elections in Tire. " However, the clear division between the political forces over the solution of the orchard problem, which was prevented for three weeks without a meeting of the Council of Ministers, prompted these circles to inquire about what the Ministry of the Interior will do. in this regard. Recent sources have confirmed that they "would follow the same path as the recent sub-elections in Tripoli". The extension of the body after consultation with the legislative and advisory body of the Ministry of Justice, which confirmed the legality of this extension related to the electoral law obtained after the vacancy of a seat parliament by decision of the Constitutional Council, which annulled the appeal of Jamali and set a deadline of two months for the holding of under-elections in the capital of the north. According to the decision of the consultative body itself, "the Minister of the Interior, Ria Hbadan, at the first ministerial session, this case, either Cabinet decides to extend the work of the Commission, either to appoint new members ".