Aoun: Resorting to electoral law of Orthodox Gathering is normal after rejecting proportionality

Head of Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun said that Lebanon’s situation is difficult and the country is a scene for international intelligence and secondary wars, refusing any internal conflict.            

Aoun recommended on Sunday the adoption of the electoral law proposed by the Orthodox Gathering, under which each sect would elect its own lawmakers, after the government’s recent endorsement of an electoral law based on proportional representation and 13 electorates infuriated the opposition March 14 and MP Walid Jumblat.                    

“Resorting to the electoral law adopted by the Orthodox Gathering will be normal after the rejection of a law based on proportional representation,” Aoun stated during an iftar banquet organized by FPM’s Beirut department.                      

“We have made a sacrifice by accepting the proportional representation system, as we would lose around 10 seats in Mount Lebanon after we claimed all the seats in the past” he noted.           

“The importance of an electoral law based on proportional representation is that we will get rid of the sectarian and inflammatory rhetoric,” he added.