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lots of headlines & I know that people sometimes just scroll headlines. So, about the resignation of the #Lebanese government [apologies for those for whom this is obvious]
The resignation of a government does NOT result in elections or even necessarily a change in government
The resignation of a government does NOT result in elections or even necessarily a change in government
Instead, the current government immediately becomes a caretaker government, until a new government/PM goes through a vote of confidence process in Parliament. This can and probably will take a long while, especially in the absence of parliamentary elections. The only time
Lebanese citizens vote is for Parliament, it is a parliamentary system. Everything else [president, prime minister], Parliament votes for. Sometimes I feel some journalists & some commentators really think there is no system at all, or maybe they think readers don& #39;t care about
"the details." But you can& #39;t understand anything about the current resignation, or the investigation, or the system of governance and patronage, unless you acknowledge & explain the structures & processes at play. Otherwise you paint a 
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decayed Lebanon & its institutions & [supposedly] public goods for decades; the myth that there are NO checks & balances or systems of accountability, structures of oversight, not even on PAPER. On behalf of those in power, obfuscating knowledge has made it easier 2 ignore/decay
processes in place, massage them with sometimes illegal judicial/administrative interference & appointing yes men /self interested people, or making political deals over state institutions. Do you think Berri doesn& #39;t know every nook & cranny of the legal/ administrative system?
of course he does! Their [those who prob don& #39;t know like Hariri have aides that do] power thrives in part on our ignorance of a system they purportedly run (into & under the ground). I& #39;m not saying knowing/ explaining the system is all we need but lack of knowledge & a myth that
there is only structural chaos in Lebanon makes it worse.
The system of political sectarianism itself, at the executive level, exists nowhere in [written, published] law. Please, if you are interested in #Lebanonhttps://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> beyond the shock of the explosion, keep reading beyond headlines
The system of political sectarianism itself, at the executive level, exists nowhere in [written, published] law. Please, if you are interested in #Lebanon
obv lebanese citizens also vote for municipal elections, but only national scale vote is for parliament. I use the language of "citizens" purposely, 30% of Lebanon& #39;s residents, 30% of the body politic in Lebanon, are not citizens. 30% has no representation or voice in the govt
