European Union countries, which include about 70,000 voters, according to the latest figures only 36,383 voted.

As for UAE alone, about 18,000 voted, a significant number from Lebanese expatriates that will go to 14-March and new opposition parties.

Similar to Hezbullah, all Palestinian factions in Gaza have raised their readiness during the 1-month IDF drill in fear of a surprise Israeli attack or assassination of a high-rank commander.

🛑 Thousands of Lebanese Shia in Dearborn USA were not able to vote today despite registering and receiving email confirmations. Whole neighborhoods and sectors are not available on the lists.

Full details from Dearborn: fb.watch/cTUQgmTs7u/

Back in 2018 I was working with the Lebanese Interior ministry in registering the votes, including the ones from the diaspora.

We had at least two full bags of votes from Michigan/Dearborn that were discarded because the system didn't have their polling centers on the software.

The fact that it happened again in 2022 is pathetic. It is likely voter suppression.

The Lebanese ambassador in Britain to LBCI: The voter turnout in Britain reached 75%, which is a record number, and in Ireland, the percentage reached 71.6%.

At dawn today, IDF returned the bodies of the two ISIS militants to be buried in their hometown Um Al-Fahm in the occupied Palestinian interior.

Despite killing Israelis, the bodies were returned while dozens of Palestinian bodies are still captive in unmarked graves.

Notable helicopter activity over Dahyeh. Likely Lebanese army helicopters.

Apologies for the lack of updates today, and not covering the rallies and so on. Still at work.

Pictures of martyr PM Rashid Karami were raised in Al-Nour Square in Tripoli, captioed: "Tripoli is in your hands, do not allow them to assassinate me again."

Rashid Karami was assassinated by the current head of the Lebanese Forces party Samir Geagea.

Israeli UAVs were violating Lebanon's airspace over Beirut for several hours early in the morning.

Prominent Lebanese opposition coalition ‘Vote for Change’ that has candidates all over Lebanon, saluted and sang the UAE anthem, as a thanks for hosting it and the expatriate election.

It is notable that the UAE is a tribal absolute monarchy, with a semblance of elections for the Federal National Council, “an advisory quasi-parliamentary body” of 40 members (Wiki). 20 are elected by a number of “hand-picked” citizens who have voting rights, and 20 appointed by the rulers of each emirate. The UAE is “an autocracy with the sheen of a progressive, modern state” (NYT). It has no formal commitment to free speech.

In response to western MSM Russian MFA Lavrov:

"If you can't sleep over the Ukrainian-Russian war, imagine it's in Africa or Middle East. Imagine Ukraine is Palestine or Russia is USA."

Speech started, check below to watch in English twitter.com/allushiii_new…