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A thought to be discussed:

2018 Expatriate Election Results:
- Lebanese Forces: 8,568 votes
- FPM (Aoun) 8206 votes
- Amal Movement: 4731
- Hezbullah: 4273
- Future Movement: 3210
- PSP(Joumblat)v 2226

This excludes 2,600+ lost votes during delivery, and so.

Back in 2018 when I was in working in the voting committees for the Lebanese interior ministry, two full envelopes of votes from the USA for Hezbullah and "Al-Ahbash" party were discarded because the system didn't include those two poll stations.

(Part.1)
Though Hezbullah got the majority of votes in Lebanon with a big margin, Hezbullah has the right to demand the abolition of voting by expatriates from abroad. The party cannot conduct any political activity in any country or invite its supporters to vote, they are unable to facilitate the voting process like other parties, and are unable to send delegations to rally the community.

A large part of the Shia community is afraid that if they register to vote, they will fall into trouble with the authorities.

(Part.2)
Expatriate voting is also unrepresentative, as no voting took place during the 2018 elections in Iran, where a seizable Lebanese community lives there.

Solution? What do you think the correct reasoning is here.

Note: However in light of all the mentioned above, Hezbullah didn't ask to abolish expatriate voting nor does it care about that. That was just food for thought.

(Part.3)
Palestine: The Israeli occupation delayed the passengers of a bus coming from Nablus to Al-Aqsa for hours despite harsh inspection and examination in the Al-Qattanin area.

And during that, they shot and killed a mother of 3, and left her to bleed and then stripped her naked.
This was all done to facilitate the daily Zionist storming of Al-Aqsa mosque, under the protection of Israeli police.
The dollar exchange rate increased to a range of 17,200-17,500 LBP/USD.
The beginning of the expanded meeting between the Prime Ministers of Lebanon and Jordan in the Grand Serail, with the participation of Lebanese and Jordanian ministerial delegations.
The Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi, contacted the Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman, regarding the escape of a number of detainees from the Niha police station, at dawn today, requesting to intensify the search for the fugitives.
The Minister of Interior and Municipalities Judge Bassam Mawlawi met with the US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea to discuss the Lebanese and regional political situation.
Now: The wife of kidnapped Imam Sayyed Mussa Al-Sadr, Parvin Khalili, died today.
President Aoun held talks with Jordanian Prime Minister Bishr Al-Khasawneh at Baabda Palace, and discussed the ongoing preparations for the transfer of Egyptian gas to Lebanon via Jordan and Syria.

Aoun also welcomed the reopening of the crossing of Jaber between Jordan and Syria, hoping that all necessary facilitations are provided for Lebanese trucks to transport Lebanese agricultural products by land to the Gulf countries.
🚨 IDF UAV fell over southern Lebanon.
Hezbullah: The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance managed, at 13:55 pm today, Thursday, 9/30/2021, to shoot down a UAV of the Israeli enemy army in Wadi Maryamin in the outskirts of the town of Yater in southern Lebanon, by targeting it with appropriate weapons.