Lebanon Needs Primary Elections
Posted by MickelEveryday we hear a dozen stories about candidates from the same party or alliance clashing over a seat here and a seat there.
This highlights the fact that Lebanon is the perfect country for primary elections.
First the people from the same party elect their nominee, and the winner runs for the actual parliamentary elections. It could spare us plenty of this inner-bickering that leaves supporters of the same party or alliance confused as to whom they should vote for.
Every district has clashes and disputes over its list and primary elections are the perfect solution.
But then again maybe this idea is a little too democratic for the Lebanese tribal mentality. 
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1. paul | April 25th, 2009 at 10:17 am
This will be very simple,and simple things are transparent,and transparency is easy to see throught… the more complicated the better.(7ifazan 3ala l3aysh lmoushtarak)
2. pierre | April 27th, 2009 at 6:58 am
I always love the idea of a Primary in Lebanon. If this is done it will let the PEOPLE choose who they want to run on a list and not just get candidates force fed to them. But this will be very hard to introduce in Lebanon because we have political parties with no sense of democray and usually a family or a person that holds and leads the party. Primary elections will dimish the power of the party leader.
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