1. Parliament building

2. Allocation of seats

3. Political parties

4. Speaker

5. Electoral system

6. See also

7. References

8. External links

• {{Color box|#FF6000|border=darkgray}} Free Patriotic Movement: 29 seats
• {{Color box|#008000|border=darkgray}} Amal: 17 seats
• {{Color box|#F7DF19|border=darkgray}} Hezbollah: 13 seats
• {{Color box|#ADFF2F|border=darkgray}} El Marada: 3 seats
• {{Color box|#000000|border=darkgray}} Syrian Social Nationalist Party: 3 seats
• {{Color box|#E4DFE8|border=darkgray}} Independent: 9 seats
• {{Color box|#00008C|border=darkgray}} Azm (Mikati Bloc): 4 seats

• {{Color box|#007FFF|border=darkgray}} Future Movement: 20 seats
• {{Color box|#F0001C|border=darkgray}} Lebanese Forces: 15 seats
• {{Color box|#860111|border=darkgray}} Progressive Socialist Party: 9 seats
• {{Color box|#009000|border=darkgray}} Kataeb: 3 seats

• {{Color box|#AF1684|border=darkgray}} Civil Society: 1 seat
• {{Color box|#F0001C|border=darkgray}} National Dialogue Party: 1 seat
• {{Color box|#007FFF|border=darkgray}} Michel Murr: 1 seat

The Parliament of Lebanon ({{lang-ar|مجلس النواب}} Majlis an-Nuwwab; {{lang-fr|Chambre des députés}})^[1] is the national parliament of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian and Muslim denominations. Lebanon has universal adult suffrage. Its major functions are to elect the President of the republic, to approve the government (although appointed by the President, the Prime Minister, along with the Cabinet, must retain the confidence of a majority in the Parliament), and to approve laws and expenditure.

On 15 May 2013, the Parliament extended its mandate for 17 months, due to the deadlock over the electoral law. And, on 5 November 2014, the Parliament enacted another extension, thus keeping its mandate for an additional 31 months, until 20 June 2017,^[2] and in 16 June 2017 the Parliament in turn extended its own mandate an additional 11 months to hold elections according to a much-anticipated reformed electoral law. On May 6, 2018, a new parliament was elected in the 2018 general election, thus ending the mandate of the 2009 parliament who extended it for about 5 years.

Parliament building

The Parliament building was designed by Mardiros Altounian, who was also the architect of the Étoile clock tower. The building was completed in 1934 during the French Mandate period. Advised to build in the spirit of Lebanese tradition, the architect visited the Emirs' palaces in the Chouf Mountains. He also drew inspiration from the Oriental styles developed in Paris, Istanbul and Cairo at the turn of the 20th century. The building combines Beaux-Arts design with elements taken from local architectural tradition, including twin and triple arch windows. The limestone façade, decorated with recessed panels, arched openings, and tiers of stalactites clads a reinforced concrete frame that also supports the 20-meter diameter cupola covering the chamber of deputies. It represented a major technical achievement at that time.

Allocation of seats

A unique feature of the Lebanese system is the principle of "confessional distribution": each religious community has an allotted number of deputies in the Parliament.

In elections held between 1932 and 1972 (the last till after the Lebanese Civil War), seats were apportioned between Christians and Muslims in a 6:5 ratio, with various denominations of the two faiths allocated representation roughly proportional to their size. By the 1960s, Muslims had become openly dissatisfied with this system, aware that their own higher birthrate and the higher emigration rate among Christians had by this time almost certainly produced a Muslim majority, which the parliamentary distribution did not reflect. Christian politicians were unwilling to abolish or alter the system, however, and it was one of the factors in the 1975–1990 civil war. The Taif Agreement of 1989, which ended the civil war, reapportioned the Parliament to provide for equal representation of Christians and Muslims, with each electing 64 of the 128 deputies.

Although distributed confessionally, all members, regardless of their religious faith, are elected by universal suffrage, forcing politicians to seek support from outside of their own religious communities, unless their co-religionists overwhelmingly dominate their particular constituency.

The changes stipulated by the Taif Agreement are set out in the table below*:

according to the Doha Agreement

• Yankauer suction tip
• Yank Crime
• Yankee 400
• Yankee 600
• Yankee Air Force
• Yankee Autumn In Acadiana
• Yankee barn
• Yankee bond
• Yankee bonds
• Yankee Candle
• Yankee Candle Co.
• Yankee Candles
• Yankee Cannonball
• Yankee cannonball
• Yankee Clipper Council
• Yankee Clipper (Harbour Cruise)
• Yankee Dime
• Yankee Division
• Yankee dollar
• Yankee Dood It
• Yankee doodle
• Yankee Doodle Daffy
• Yankee doodle dandy
• Yankee Doodle Dandy in the Millennium
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (song)