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Ballot papers mentioned the explosion of the port and the assassination of Luqman Selim
Yesterday, the Lebanese parliament re-elected Speaker Nabih Berri for a seventh term with a majority of 65 votes, the lowest number of votes that Berri had obtained since his first election in 1992. Despite the fragmentation that resulted in the elections, the blocs that were represented in the previous parliament retained their seats in the new bureau body Elias Abu Saab (from the Free Patriotic Movement bloc) was elected Vice-President of the Council with a majority of 65 votes. Thus, the “Amal” movement and “the Current” shared the “leadership” of the new parliament.
It was remarkable in Berri’s election that the number of white papers, which amounted to 23, and 40 canceled papers, carried slogans reminiscent of the revolution, and demanded “justice for the victims of the port explosion” and “justice for the depositors”, in reference to the funds held in banks, and the name Luqman appeared in some of them. Salim, the activist opposed to “Hezbollah” who was assassinated in southern Lebanon, and the perpetrators of the crime have not been revealed so far, and the “Strong Republic” (the “Lebanese Forces” deputies) and a paper bearing the phrase denouncing the council’s police, which activists hold responsible for injuries sustained to the demonstrators in front of the council headquarters .
Members of the Parliament’s police and members of the “Amal” movement gathered in front of the Parliament’s headquarters and the Parliament’s headquarters in Ain al-Tineh, to participate in the celebration, in celebration of Berri’s election.
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