Over 240,000 Lebanon expats register to vote in polls
Nearly 245,000 Lebanese living abroad have signed up to vote in next year's parliamentary polls, Lebanon's foreign ministry said yesterday, after it closed the window for registration.
The vote scheduled for March 2022 is seen by many as a chance to challenge the ruling elite's stranglehold on a country mired in its worse-ever financial crisis.
Lebanon's diaspora -- estimated to number at least three times the country's 6-million population -- will take part in the vote for the 128-seat parliament, making them a powerful electoral force.
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