The Lebanese electoral pattern between the bet of democracy and the siege of sectarianism
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The experience of the Lebanese electoral system can not be addressed without returning to the roots of the Lebanese society for more than three centuries. This return makes the researcher stand on many of the basic rules that the Lebanese representative system is rotating on. Since the beginning of the foreign concessions, the foreign concessions have become entrenched in this fabric at the end of the Ottoman influence on the Arab countries, where sectarianism played a prominent role in determining many of the components of Lebanese society and thus choosing the electoral patterns that prevailed in the Lebanese regions depending on their sectarian situations T was the basis in determining the type of government and the dominance of a range on the other by granting privileges and strengthened at the expense of other communities. Accordingly, this system of electoral representation emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century based on the influence of this foreign state or that, and the extent of adoption of a variety of sects .. Therefore, it was the first Lebanese political entity sectarian excellence, and embodied in the system of sectarianism, Its basic law in 1864 began in the same year and continued until World War I, and it had its representative institutions, headed by a Christian president who ran the state in accordance with what the West had defined and gave him the power of hegemony over the Christian element.
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