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Lebanon’s parliamentary productivity

by Jeremy Arbid

At first glance, the legislative output of the Lebanese Parliament impresses with its extreme volatility. To full understand the matter of legislative productivity requires a contextual view that takes political environment into account. The election of Michel Aoun as president in October 2016 ended almost two and a half years of vacancy in the post, and was the result of an agreement between Lebanon’s political parties to form a government, headed by Saad Hariri, that would oversee negotiations to draft and pass a new electoral law to govern the first parliamentary election since 2009. The beginning of this new era brought changes that were an indication of state productivity, which had been lacking in Lebanon for several years. These changes included: the ratification of two state budgets; the holding of parliamentary elections; the passage of anti-corruption laws; the enactment of anti-torture legislation and other human rights-related measures; the signing of

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