Parliamentary elections in Lebanon on May 15 will keep in power many of the same political elites that have led the country into a ruinous economic crisis, a dispiriting outcome for the domestic opposition and foreign actors aiming to avoid the creation of yet another failed state in the region.
- Heiko Wimmen
- New Lines Institute
These results should impel stakeholders to navigate the narrow limits of change imposed by domestic and regional conditions.
Parliamentary elections, and ways to deter the ruling elite from cancelling the polls, have taken center stage in debates about Lebanon in the past year.
Voting in a new parliament might have been an…