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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Ballot Boxes Distributed on Eve of Lebanon’s Parliamentary Elections

A Lebanese government employee sorts sealed electoral ballot box containing new ballots marked for the various religious sects according to Lebanese confessional voting rules, at a government office in the capital Beirut on May 5, 2018. ANWAR AMRO / AFP

Polling station employees in Lebanon began on Saturday distributing thousands of ballot boxes ahead of the country's first parliamentary elections in nearly a decade.

The distribution came a day before 3.7 million eligible voters are set to cast their ballots.

The vote, the first for a parliament since 2009, is also the first under a new election law based on proportional representation which awards the number of seats by the share of vote received.

Around 600 candidates are running in 15 districts around the country for the 128-seat parliament.

Some 30,000 soldiers and police officers will be deployed across the country on Sunday.

The polls open at 7 a.m. on Sunday and close at 7 p.m. and unofficial results are expected to emerge overnight.

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