BEIRUT: When Lebanon holds its Parliamentary election soon, almost one-fourth of the 128 seats are expected to be passed on from an older relative to another member of the family. Nineteen candidates are attempting to inherit the seats of their parents.
They are:
1. Nezar Mohsen Dalloul (Shiite) for Zahle district in Central Bekaa
2. Ziad Nazem Al-Qadery (Sunni) for Western Bekaa and Rashaya
3. Ali Sabri Bek Hmadeh (Shiite) for Baalbeck – Hermel
4. Amin Edmond Rizk (Greek Catholic) for Jezzine in South Lebanon
5. Abdulrahman Nazih Al-Bizri (Sunni) for Saida district in South Lebanon
6. Ahmed Mouhammed Kamel Al-Assaad (Shiite) for Nabatiyeh district
7. Riad Saeed Al-Assaad (Shiite) for Zahrani district in South Lebanon
8. Fadi Issam Abou Jamra (Greek Orthodox) for Marjayoun and Hasbayya district
9. Walid Wajeeh Al-Baarini (Sunni) for Akkar district in North Lebanon
10. Mohammed Tareq Talal Al-Maraabi (Sunni) for Akkar district
11.Sami Ahmad Shawki Fatfat (Sunni) for Al-Danniyeh district in North Lebanon
12.Michel René Mouawwad (Maronite) for Zgharta district
13.Tony Suleiman Frangieh for Zgharta
14.Michelle Gebran Tueni (Greek Orthodox) for Beirut
15.Nadim Bachir Gemayel (Maronite) for Beirut
16.Omar Najah Wakim (Greek Orthodox) for Beirut
17.Zaher Walid Eido (Sunni) for Baabda district in Mount Lebanon
18.Taymour Walid Jumblatt (Druze) For the Shouf district in Mount Lebanon
19.Camille Michel Dory Chamoun (Maronite) for Al-Shouf district in Mount Lebanon.
All in the family: Lebanese politicians seeking to inherit their parents’ seats
All in the family: Lebanese politicians seeking to inherit their parents’ seats
Kurds in Turkiye protest over Syria Aleppo offensive
- Several hundred people gathered in Diyarbakir while hundreds more joined a protest in Istanbul
- In the capital, Ankara, DEM lawmakers protested in front of the Turkish parliament
DIYARBAKIR, Turkiye: Protesters rallied for a second day in Turkiye’s main cities on Thursday to demand an end to a deadly Syrian army offensive against Kurdish fighters in Aleppo, an AFP correspondent said.
Several hundred people gathered in Diyarbakir, southeastern Turkiye’s main Kurdish-majority city, while hundreds more joined a protest in Istanbul that was roughly broken up by riot police who arrested around 25 people, the pro-Kurdish DEM party said.
In the capital, Ankara, DEM lawmakers protested in front of the Turkish parliament, denouncing the targeting of Kurds in Aleppo as a crime against humanity.
The protesters demanded an end to the operation by Syrian government forces against the Kurdish-led SDF force in Aleppo, where at least 21 people have been killed in three days of violent clashes.
It was the worst violence in the northwestern city since Syria’s Islamist authorities took power a year ago. The fighting erupted as both sides struggled to implement a March agreement to integrate autonomous Kurdish institutions into the new Syrian state.
In Istanbul, hundreds of protesters waving flags braved heavy rain near Galata Tower to denounce the Aleppo operation under the watchful eye of hundreds of riot police, an AFP correspondent said.
But some of the slogans drew a sharp warning from the police, who moved to roughly break up the gathering and arrested some 25 people, DEM’s Istanbul branch said.
“We condemn in the strongest terms the police attack on the Rojava solidarity action in Sishane. This brutal intervention, oppression, and violence against our young comrades is unacceptable!” the party wrote on X, demanding the immediate release of those arrested.
At the Diyarbakir protest during the afternoon, protesters carried a huge portrait of the jailed PKK militant leader Abdullah Ocalan, an AFP video journalist reported.
“We urge states to act as they did for the Palestinian people, for our Kurdish brothers who are suffering oppression and hardship,” Zeki Alacabey, 64, told AFP in Diyarbakir.
Although Turkiye has embarked on a peace process with the PKK, it remains hostile to the SDF, which controls swathes of northeastern Syria, seeing it as an extension of the banned militant group and a major threat along its southern border.
It has repeatedly demanded that the SDF merge into the main Syrian military. A defense ministry official said on Thursday that Ankara was ready to “support” Syria’s operation against the Kurdish fighters if needed.
Demonstrators had already taken to the streets in several major Turkish cities with Kurdish majorities on Wednesday, including Diyarbakir and Van, according to images broadcast by the DEM.
