Special envoy to Nabatiyé
On the road to Nabatiyé, in this deep South where Shiite Hezbollah and its local ally, Amal, reign supreme, few election posters are visible.
However, legislative elections will be held this Sunday, May 15 across the country to elect the 128 deputies of the new Parliament.
"
They don't need it: the portraits of martyrs and community leaders are spread all year round
," sighs Nagham from the village of Deir ez-Zahrani.
"
Failing that, they go back on the road to guarantee our votes
," she complains.
Her husband sees nothing wrong with it.
“
Here, only Amal helps us.
It's normal to vote for him
,” he replies, faithful to the movement of the President of Parliament, Nabih Berry, whose HQ is right next door, in Mseylé.
Unlike other regions where there is a certain political pluralism, in the South the Shiite tandem retains its hegemony.
Even in Baalbek, another bastion, its supremacy is not so absolute: in the previous election of 2018, the…
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