Lebanon: Towards a Postponement of the Parliamentary Elections Scheduled for Next May

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The United States and Saudi Arabia would push for a postponement of the legislative elections scheduled for May in Lebanon, as Hezbollah and former Prime Minister Saad Hariri would still be popular.

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The danger of postponing parliamentary elections in Lebanon is not measured by the number of months added to the parliament's term, but rather by the political implications of such a postponement. When a constitutional obligation is delayed under pretexts such as "security conditions" or "national priorities," it ceases to be a mere technical procedure and becomes a new precedent added to a long list of convoluted practices that render constitut…