1. Unprecedented breakthrough by independent candidates
By a kind of democratic miracle, the protest launched in October 2019 to demand the departure of a political class unchanged for decades, ended up succeeding.
Undermined by the worst economic crisis since 1850, exhausted, humiliated and ruined by 90% inflation, the Lebanese elected about fifteen deputies from their “revolution”.
Structural reforms, acclaimed by partner countries and international donors, could now be voted on.
They are essential to avoid collapse.
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While 80% of the population now lives below the poverty line, which the middle class has unscrewed, the "redistributive kleptocracy", as political scientist Ghassan Salamé has called it, is wavering.
The other lesson of the election is the weakening of candidates allied to Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian armed movement which has been pulling the economic and political strings in the country for thirty years.
Although still powerful in the land of the Cedars, the old guard...
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