Lebanon's parliament boycotted by legislators over constitutionality of diaspora voting law

A dispute over the voting rights of the Lebanese diaspora has escalated after Parliament was unable to convene on Tuesday, when more than half of the MPs boycotted the plenary session. [ . . . ] Under the current voting law, which dates back to 2017 but was never implemented in the 2018 or 2022 elections, Lebanese living abroad will only be allowed to cast votes for a newly created bloc of six MPs in next year's polls − as opposed to all 128 seats, as was previously the case. Detractors say it treats the diaspora as second-class citizens and violates the policy of equality enshrined in Article 7 of the Lebanese constitution, which says that Lebanese enjoy “civil and political rights equally”.
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