Hezbollah and its allies have lost their majority in the new Lebanese parliament, according to the final election results, the final batch of which was announced on Tuesday by Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi.
Hezbollah, the country’s most prominent political and military force backed by Tehran and its allies, has retained nearly seventy of the 128 seats in the outgoing parliament. The election results show that rival blocs will enter the parliament, none of which has an absolute majority, which, according to analysts, will make it more vulnerable to splits.
The results showed that Hezbollah and its ally Amal, a Shiite movement led by outgoing parliamentary speaker Nabih Berri, retained all the seats allocated to the Shiite community (27 seats) in the country, while their allies lost seats in several constituencies.
The elections are the first since the economic collapse, which the World Bank ranked among the worst in the world since 1850, and after unprecedented popular protests against the government, and the horrific explosion on August 4, 2020 in the port of Beirut, which killed more than two hundred people and destroyed neighborhoods in the capital. In the final results, opposition lists stemming from the protests against political power that Lebanon witnessed more than two years ago won at least 13 seats in the new parliament. The twelve winners are new faces and have never held any political office, and these representatives, together with other deputies, would form a bloc in parliament that would initiate a different approach to parliamentary work in a country whose political system is based on sectarian quotas. and the prevailing logic of transactions.
