A committee formed Saturday in Doha from six members of the Lebanese rivals has agreed on adopting a new election law,
Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa learned from a delegate.
"The committee has mainly agreed on adopting Lebanon's 1960
electoral law with some amendments regarding the city of Beirut," a
Lebanese delegate at the talks in Qatar said.
Lebanon has been a parliamentary democracy since the promulgation of the
Lebanese constitution in 1926.
The first parliamentary elections were held in 1927, and except for gaps during
World War Two and the 1975-90 civil war, they were held on a fairly regular
four-year basis.
Throughout the past 80 years the election system has remained a majoritarian
first-past-the-post system in multiple-member districts.
Seats in each district are specified for candidates from particular religious
communities, but all voters in each district vote for all seats.
There were virtually no regulations on campaign finance and media, and the
Ministry of Interior managed the election process.
There have been post-war elections after Lebanon's civil war in 1975-1990 civil war, of which there have been four so far 1992,
1996, 2000, and 2005, dpa reported.
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