BEIRUT, May 5 -- Some 3.7 million Lebanese people are registered to cast their votes in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, the first of their kind since the adoption of a new law that allows proportional representation.
However, despite the abolition of the old majoritarian electoral system where the winner takes all, no major changes are expected in the political distribution of powers inside the parliament, because of the preferential voting system introduced in the new electoral law.
"How can you expect a representation of the political minorities in the parliament, when you introduce what is called the preferential voting, in which the Lebanese will cast according to their sectarian attribution," Hicham Nasreddine, head of Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) electoral body, told Xinhua.
The voters will focus on "their protectors" with no attention "to any new aspiring candidates," said Nasreddine, whose party represents the majority of the Druzes in Lebanon.
But Khalil Hamadeh, a politburo member of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), Lebanon's largest Christian party established by President Michel Aoun and headed by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, disagreed as his party aims for more seats in the parliamentary elections under the new electoral law.
"Our party aspires for a larger representation than what we already have in parliament, to restore the Christian representation in the hands of its owners," he told Xinhua.
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