Hezbullah Claims Popular Vote Victory, Concedes Parliamentary Defeat.
Hezbullah's al-manar TV site claims that final total vote tallies of the Lebanese election show that Hezbullah and her allies have won a majority of the Lebanese votes cast in this past election. Hezbullah concedes that its alliance came in second in seats in the new parliament of Lebanon. According to the report the popular vote is divided as follows:
Opposition (Hezbullah, Amal, Christian allies) = 54.7% of the total popular vote= 815 thousand votes
Ruling coalition (Hariri, Druze, Christian allies)= 45.3% of the total= 680 thousand votes.
I am sure these figures are accurate, and nobody is disputing them. But it won't allow them to form a government, which is what matters in Lebanon. It is probably this huge loss of popular vote that has made the Hariri side quite subdued in 'victory'.
Does this mean that Hassan Nasrallah can still be elected president of Lebanon if there was one man/woman one vote?
Cheers
mhg
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