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Traditional political groups take back Beirut Bar Association, opposition suffers defeat

BEIRUT — Candidates backed by traditional political blocs won big while opposition-backed lawyers suffered major setbacks on Sunday in the Beirut Bar Association elections, which some observers...

Mohamad El Chamaa, 21 November 2021

Lebanon has registered 937 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Ten more people have died, raising the death toll to 8,645

21 November 2021

More than 240,000 Lebanon expats register to vote in polls

BEIRUT — Nearly 245,000 Lebanese living abroad have signed up to vote in next year’s parliamentary polls, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, after it closed the window for registration....

21 November 2021

Candidate said to be backed by Future, FPM, Amal elected president of Beirut Bar Association

BEIRUT — Nader Gaspar was elected president of the Beirut Bar Association on Sunday after receiving 1,530 votes from members of the association. Gaspar was backed in the runup to the vote by the...

Mohamad El Chamaa, 21 November 2021

Lawyers have elected nine new members to the Beirut Bar Association council — all of whom were representatives of traditional political blocs

21 November 2021

Some 244,442 Lebanese citizens abroad registered to vote in the 2022 elections by Friday’s deadline, according to the Foreign Ministry. It remains unclear when the vote will be held amid a standoff between MPs and President Michel Aoun over recent amendments to the electoral law

21 November 2021

Voting at the Beirut Bar Association is set to take place this morning. In the first round, lawyers will vote to fill nine council seats and approve a new budget. In the second round they will elect a new bar association president

21 November 2021