Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi hoped on Sunday that officials would succeed in reaching an agreement over a parliamentary electoral law that “revives real democracy” in Lebanon. He therefore called on officials to reach an agreement over an electoral law that “does not fuel sectarianism.”

Furthermore, the patriarch stressed during his Sunday sermon that the new electoral law should also grant equality between Muslims and Christians. “Citizens have the right to elect their representatives at parliament without the criteria being imposed on them by the people in power,” al-Rahi said. “Each side is seeking to protect Lebanon's Christians and Muslims and therefore bolster coexistence in the country,” he noted. [Link]