The heavily loaded Lebanese political agenda is witnessing yet another dilemma: which electoral law to adopt for the coming Lebanese parliamentary elections to be held in June, or perhaps postponed to a later date. Various factors lend an exceptional importance to these elections.
- The March 14 and March 8 coalitions are increasingly polarized by the Syrian crisis, the uncertainty of its developments and its extensive repercussions.
- The new chosen parliament will elect the next Lebanese president in 2014.
- The political stalemate, which is the result of an unstable and crippled parliamentary balance of power between the two key forces in Lebanon, must be broken. Both sides depend on the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt gaining a majority, and thus both remain hostages to his choices on an issue to issue basis, just like the current governmental situation.
