Hezbollah swept in the region of Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel in municipal and mayoral elections, as its candidates won Beirut, results showed on Monday.
The Lebanese voted on Sunday in the governorates of Beirut, Bekaa and Baalbeck-Hermel, in the third round of municipal elections. The country’s governorates of Nabatieh and South Lebanon are to vote next Saturday (May 24).
Hussein Al-Nemr, Hezbollah official in the region of Bekaa, which also includes Baalbek-Hermel, announced on Monday that all candidates supported by Hezbollah won municipal and mayoral seats in the two governorates.
“Electoral lists backed by the national duo secured absolute victory in Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel,” Al-Nemr told a press conference in the city of Baalbek, referring to Hezbollah and Amal Movement.
“Of 80 municipal councils, 28 lists won uncontested,” Al-Nemr said, adding that 22 others were lists nominated by local families who are backed by the national duo.
Baalbek Battle
Meanwhile, Al-Nemr stressed that the electoral battle in Baalbek was “political par excellence,” pointing to the sweeping victory of candidates backed by Hezbollah and Amal Movement.
“In Baalbek, our list swept the elections as it won by about 6,000 votes over the competing list,” he told reporters.
Al-Nemr hailed the people of Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel for supporting the resistance, affirming that: “The resistance in Bekaa does not need a referendum as the people announced their choice 40 years ago.”
Hezbollah didn’t lose a single seat in today’s Lebanese municipal elections in Beirut, Baalbek, Bekaa – an important sign that its supporter base is still steadfast and behind the part. pic.twitter.com/ZzgiaFzLmU
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For his part, Head of Baalbek-Hermel Alliance MP Hussein Hajj Hasan said “people of resistance in the Bekaa region proved once again their support and steadfastness.”
The elections showed the firmness of the alliance between the national duo, “though we do not need to prove this alliance.”
Beirut Elections
Elsewhere in Beirut, all three candidates by Hezbollah and Amal Movement won the municipal and mayoral seats, local media reported, citing unofficial results.
🚨 The “Beirut Unites Us” electoral list, supported by Hezbollah, Amal, the Lebanese Forces, Kataeb, Al-Mashari‘, the Tashnag, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Socialist Party, and MP Fouad Makhzoumi, is currently ahead in the elections. Following their victory in the mukhtar… pic.twitter.com/PdKFtx5z9C
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The national duo take part in Lebanon’s municipal and mayoral elections with allied lists named “Development and Loyalty”.
Lebanon is braced for the fourth round of local elections next Saturday, May 24, in the two governorates of Nabatieh and South Lebanon.
Source: Al-Manar English Website
