Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq declared that holding the parliamentary elections based on the new electoral law needs at least 7 months.
Prior to the meeting held by the ministerial committee tasked with discussing the new vote law, Minister Youssef Finianos said that “they opposed the vote of preference within the district and they wanted it to be within the constituency,” stating that they have candidates in all constituencies of North Lebanon, while the Free Patriotic Movement has only one candidate in Batroun.