Berri Warns: Calm or Elections Based on a-Province-a-Week
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday warned that unless calm prevailed throughout the period preceding the June 7 elections, polls would not be held on the same day.
"There is a need for calm, calm, calm across Lebanon so that we can reach Election Day in an atmosphere which will allow us to conclude this issue the way it should be done," Berri said in remarks published by the daily An Nahar on Wednesday.
"If an atmosphere of calm was not ensured," Berri warned, "we would not be able to hold elections on a single day."
"Then, God forbids, we need to hold elections a-province-a-week, a matter that would exhaust security forces and cripple the election process," he added.