Minister of Interior and Municipalities Bassam Mawlawi confirmed, after inspecting the operations room at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow-up on the voting of Lebanese expatriates, that “what is happening today is a Lebanese festival abroad.”

“…We prepared for the elections in a good way, better than the conditions we are living in. The indicators are very good, and we did not witness any boycott of the elections,” Minister Mawlawi said.

He pointed out that “the turnout and voting rates are high, the lists are numbered, and there are no other copies that anyone can receive, whereby the head of the polling station will deliver the copies by numbers at the end of the day.”

In response to a question about what happened in Germany, Mawlawi explained that “it will be included in the poll report and we will deal with it, and the papers are not considered void. I called Ambassador Adib in Berlin and confirmed that he has special controls for the Beirut II electoral district.”

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon