The elections would be the first since 2009 and would be held according to Lebanon’s new election law passed last year. The 128 members of parliament have had their terms extended three times over fears of spillover from Syria’s war and dissatisfaction with the previous voting law.
Lebanese resistance movement's electoral program for the upcoming legislative polls include:
-protecting Lebanon and its people, territories, oil, and natural resources
-achieving political and administrative reform inside the state institutions
-improving the current vote mode
-developing the judicial system and enhancing it as an independent authority
-bolstering the role of the monitoring bodies
-establishing a national ministry for planning
-drawing special attention to the combat of financial and administrative corruption
-providing the necessary capacities to beef up the security and military institutions, on top of which the Lebanese army
-endorsing the extended administrative decentralization law in Lebanon -adopting the process of bids and tenders
-reinforcing the role of the civil service board and rendering it a sole entrance to public employment
-activating computerization to facilitate citizens’ formalities.”
