Families of victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion carry portraits of their relatives outside a polling station in Beirut, Lebanon on May 15. Photo: AFP
Lebanon holds first election since economic crisis but few expect major changes
- A new generation of independent candidates hopes to kindle the kind of change that a 2019 protest movement failed to deliver
- Turnout in the election was low, with about 32 per cent of registered voters casting their ballots with two hours of voting to go before polls closed
Families of victims of the 2020 Beirut port explosion carry portraits of their relatives outside a polling station in Beirut, Lebanon on May 15. Photo: AFP
