Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat on Tuesday criticized the proportional representation electoral law that the parties have agreed on as “complicated,” as the Marada Movement rejected the mechanism of counting the so-called “preferred vote.”
“In Greece, the sun shines creating serenity and beauty, while in Lebanon a complicated and complex electoral law is being born -- a law that is complicated like its makers and fabricators,” Jumblat tweeted sarcastically from Greece.
Public Works and Transport Minister Youssef Fenianos of the Marada Movement meanwhile expressed his movement's rejection of the mechanism of counting the so-called “preferred vote.”
“We are opposed to counting the preferred vote in the administrative district and we want it to be counted in the electoral district, because we have candidates in all northern districts while the Free Patriotic Movement only has a single candidate in Batroun,” Fenianos said after he took part in an electoral law meeting at the Grand Serail.