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[suetoniuspaulinus]

LEBANON ELECTIONS KEY FACTS
128-seat, divided along sectarian and communal lines - 64 for Muslims and 64 for Christians
MPs elected for four-year terms
Voting age 21 years
Main factions
- 14 March Coalition: Future movement; Progressive Socialist Party; Christian Lebanese Forces; Christian Phalangist party.
- 8 March Coalition: Hezbollah; Amal movement headed by the parliamentary Speaker Nabih Birri; Free Patriotic Movement of Gen Michel Aoun.


Courtesy of the BBC News

The Christians amount to 30% of the voting population.

[RichardB]

Actually the 30% christian community just refers to the maronite christians and does not take into account other christian groups including Greek orthodox

In reality the christian groups make up just over 50% of the population

Religion: Unlike most other Arab countries, Lebanon is characterized by great religious and cultural diversity. At the time of independence Christians formed a slight majority of the population, the largest single community (nearly 30% of the total) being the Maronite Christians, who mostly inhabited the north of Lebanon and the capital, Beirut. Other Christian groups included Greek Orthodox communities, Greek Catholics and Armenians. The Muslim groups were the Sunnis (living mainly in the coastal towns of Tyre, Sidon and Beirut), the Shi´as (a predominantly rural community in southern Lebanon and the northern Beka´a valley) and the much smaller Druzes, an ancient community in central Lebanon.

http://www.arab.de/arabinfo/lebanon.htm

What do you want to discuss about your posting? Maybe the fact that each section of the population gets that percentage of seats in parliment??

[suetoniuspaulinus]

https://www.cia.gov/library/publication ... os/LE.html

According to this information nearly 60% of the population is Moslem