Elections in Bourj Hammoud took place last week, but election activity in the town resurfaced during Sunday’s Beirut polls. Significant numbers of...
Bourj Hammoud’s pre-election tension erupted into several scuffles during Sunday’s polls amid charges that the voting in the largely Armenian town was fraught...
Voters in Mount Lebanon and the North will go to the polls on Sunday to elect nearly one half of the 2000 Parliament in a race characterized by mounting...
Around 8,000 people gathered in Bourj Hammoud for an election rally on Wednesday to hear Interior Minister Michel Murr accuse his rivals of seeking to destroy...
Raffi Madoyan is taking on what observers say is a formidable candidate list in Metn headed by Interior Minister Michel Murr. Madoyan is the Armenian...
The Tashnak Party has dropped long-time ally and Beirut MP Jack Jokhadarian from its list of candidates while naming Tourism Minister Arthur Nazarian to its...
The campaign for the 2000 election received another jolt on Tuesday, as opposition politicians accused the authorities of engaging in rampant vote-rigging and...
Leading politicians signaled over the weekend that the 2000 parliamentary elections have begun in earnest, staking out positions that set the stage for a...
Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will unveil the names of his running-mates in all three Beirut electoral districts on July 30, as the three-month-old...
MPs Talal Arslan and Walid Jumblatt are squaring off for a battle in Baabda-Aley, but the district’s electoral picture continues to be clouded by several...
Akkar MP Issam Fares has parted ways with his office director, Antoine Habib, over the latter’s intention to run for Parliament in Tripoli, a political source...
Nominations for August’s parliamentary elections have plunged the Phalange Party into crisis, with a war of words raging between president Mounir Hajj and...
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party will get down to the business of selecting its potential parliamentary candidates this week, after regional developments...
President Emile Lahoud indirectly hinted on Monday that his 25-year old son Emile Jr. would run for a Parliamentary seat in Metn against Nassib Lahoud, a...
Former Premier Rafik Hariri’s candidate list in Beirut will feature the first-ever candidacy by a president of the Order of Physicians, and Dr. Ghattas Khoury...
The Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections is gearing up to descend on polling stations during another the parliamentary poll, but the important work...
Tripoli MP Omar Karami faces an uphill battle to maintain his political standing in this summer’s parliamentary elections, beset on all sides by challenges...
Preparations for the battle of the Chouf have been stalled by MP Zaher Khatib’s refusal to commit to the list being assembled by Naji Boustany, who will...
Postwar reconciliation in Mount Lebanon received another boost on Monday when Bmaryam, Baabda, became the latest village to see the closing of its file on...
DAMASCUS: Fighting an uphill battle against low advertising budgets, tough economic times and a media that needs to upgrade its appreciation of art, Syria is...
Tele-Liban’s employee union on Thursday opted to end a strike that wiped out most regularly-scheduled programming for seven hours after employees began...
A series of rallies and speeches denouncing the government’s economic policies marred this year’s Labor Day celebrations as politicians and union...
Agriculture Minister Suleiman Franjieh has dashed all hope for an electoral alliance this summer with Tripoli MP Omar Karami, saying such partnership was “no...
The government is set to face the Labor Day weekend under siege by a range of demands by unions and other economic actors in the run-up to a mass labor...
LibanCell lashed out on Wednesday at the government’s demand for a share of revenues from allegedly illegal lines, accusing minister Issam Naaman of...