Lebanese Elections Take Away Hezbollah’s Majority From Parliament

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The pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement and it allies lost their majority in the Lebanese parliament in weekend legislative elections, as opposition groups and rival political factions scored gains, according to official results on Tuesday. The elections, which came while the country is suffering from its worst economic crisis, dealt a blow to Hezbollah and its allies, who only grabbed 62 seats out of the 128-member parliament. Hezbollah and its allies would have needed 65 seats to hold on to their majority in parliament. In the 2018 elections, the group and its allies, among them the Christian Fre…

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