Two Years After Protests, Lebanon Activists Set Sights On Vote

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Two Years After Protests, Lebanon Activists Set Sights On Vote

Two years after a now-defunct protest movement shook Lebanon, opposition activists are hoping parliamentary polls will challenge the ruling elite's stranglehold on the country. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets from October 17, 2019 in an unprecedented countrywide and cross-sectarian uprising. Their demands were for basic services and the wholesale removal of a political class they accused of mismanagement and corruption sinc…