Jumblat Calls for Electoral Law that Allows Minorities to Reach Parliament
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Saturday demanded partnership and called for a new electoral law that allows political minorities representation in parliament.
Jumblat hoped for "a change in the electoral law, which is an old demand, and which would allow political minorities to be represented in parliament."
The Druze leader also hoped during a meeting with a PSP campaign delegation from Marjayoun-Hasbaya district that the "qualified person be given a chance to reach parliament."
The MP called for partnership and said the June 7 parliamentary elections were based on rejection of the other.
"It”s true that we succeeded this time. But unfortunately success wasn”t based on partnership. It was based on rejection of the other and on confessional fanaticism," he told his visitors in Mukhtara.
"We want partnership," he said, urging his visitors from the south to be united and cohesively confront Israel and its agents.