Just a quick post to note that Lebanon’s electoral law is under revision. From the Daily Star:

A draft election law submitted by a national commission headed by former Foreign Minister Fouad Boutros proposed adopting a compound system that combines both a proportional system at the level of governorate voting district and a majority system for the smaller qada voting district, with 51 parliamentary seats for the former and 77 seats for the later.

Ali Fayyad, Hizbullah’s representative on the Boutros commission, said the draft has been taken out of circulation, as politicians in both the ruling coalition and opposition are leaning toward a majority-based system and toward adopting the smaller qada voting district.

“The main opposition to the compound system proposed by Boutros came from the Christians, the Maronite patriarchate and the Free Popular Movement (FPM) who insisted on the adoption of the qada voting district,” Fayyad said.

Lebanon currently uses singlemulti-member plurality districts, each reserved to a religious sect but within which the member is elected.