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“Foreign Money Seeks to Buy Lebanese Votes”

23Apr09

Lebanese elections use the “block vote” for multi-candidate lists with a confessional requirement. That is, the list in each multi-member electoral district that obtains the most votes wins ALL of the seats in the district, which makes for high stakes in each district. The confessional requirement is that for a a given district, each multi-candidate [...]

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