Lebanon’s Interior Minister says that municipal will take place in May despite the conflict with Israel

Lebanon authorities have assured this Sunday their commitment to hold municipal elections at the end of May as planned, amid the discussions between political parties about a possible three -month postponement due to the conflict with Israel, which has not yet been completely withdrawn from Lebanese territory despite the deadline to do so expire on February 18.

The Lebanese Interior Minister Ahmad Hajjar, has indicated in statements to the newspaper ‘Asharq al Awsat’ that “is working to complete the administrative preparation” of these elections that in April 2024 were postponed for the third consecutive year due to the clashes between the Israel defense forces (FDI) and the Chií Libanés, Hezbollah, Hezbollah. About the Gaza Strip.

Hajjar stressed that the new government headed by Nawaf Salam “is determined to carry out this right in accordance with the highest standards of transparency, integrity and democracy” and that since its portfolio they are conducting “a study that includes an adequate solution” to this end “in destroyed border towns and cities.

The Lebanese last went to the polls to choose their mayors in 2016, when the councilors of 1,029 municipalities distributed in eight governorates were elected. Of these, 640 exist legally but do not work, while 125 have been dissolved after more than a year and a half of hostilities between the Chií group and the Israeli army, according to the data collected by the state news agency NNA.