An elderly Lebanese woman casts her ballot paper for parliamentary elections at a polling station in the Shmustar area of Bekaa valley, in Lebanon, on 15 May 2022.Lebanon voted on Sunday in its first election since multiple crises dragged it to the brink of failed statehood, a major test for new opposition groups bent on removing the ruling elite.
A new generation of independent candidates and parties are hoping to kindle the change that an unprecedented anti-corruption uprising in 2019 failed to deliver. "It seems almost impossible to imagine Lebanon voting for more of the same - and yet that appears to be the likeliest outcome," said Sam Heller, an analyst with the Century Foundation.
Numbed by the daily hardships of the economic crisis, many registered voters have seemed indifferent to an election that they doubted would even be held until a few days ago. At one candidate's rally in the northern city of Tripoli, some well-wishers were disappointed by the lack of cash handouts made off with the plastic chairs.While Sunday's election might not topple their reviled leadership, some Lebanese see the vote as an important test for the principles that arose during the October 2019 uprising.
Hate to pi55 on peoples chips but new election but same old families/cronies run the place. Add In Muslim/Christian dilemma and it will continue to be a 2 steps forward, 3 back. Too many recent very open wounds
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