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Numerous Lebanese are facing a difficult choice in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place on June 7. According to the New York Times, donors from across the globe are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Lebanon in order to impact the elections. The Saudi Arabian government is...
Iran, however, is not currently in the process of directly hijacking an election. The Saudi bribes are also a breach of Lebanese electoral laws, which forbid the outright purchasing of votes and place a cap on the spending of candidates in the two months prior to an election.
Ironically, though, these backhanded techniques are also a testament to how far democracy has come in Lebanon. In order to influence the election result, Saudi Arabia has had to directly address the citizens of Lebanon. In earlier decades, just a few big backroom deals behind closed doors might have done...
Overall we hope to see a free and democratic election in Lebanon that truly represents the choice of its voters. We encourage the Lebanese to refuse the purchase deals and chose their candidate independently—or perhaps, as one Lebanese artist turned candidate put it, “Take...
His latest initiative to preserve the rain forest aims to create pressure for action ahead of July's G-8 summit in Italy and December's U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, much as antipoverty campaigners like Bono harnessed the power of public opinion to push an Africa agenda at...