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Analysis: After Saad Hariri’s withdrawal, the outcome of elections in Lebanon’s second-largest city was unpredictable. Hostility towards Hezbollah, clientelism, abstention and the emergence of a candidate from the 2019 protestors all left their mark.
As a result of Saad Hariri’s withdrawal from politics, the outcome of the recent election in the Lebanon’s second-largest city, was unpredictable. Hostility towards the Hezbollah, clientelism, a high rate of abstention and the emergence of a candidate from the ranks of the 2019 protestors all left their mark on this election locally. The parliamentary election on 15 May in Tripoli was very open. In that huge port city with its 80% Sunni Muslim population and its Greek Orthodox, Maronite and (...)