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Voting to elect eleven members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the South III district (one of three electoral districts in South Lebanon) on 6 May 2018, part of the general election of that year. The constituency had 460,565 voters, out of whom 228,563 voted. The district elects 8 Shiite parliamentarians, 1 Druze, 1 Greek Orthodox and 1 Sunni. [1]
In third southern electoral district 6 lists were registered. [2] The electorate is predominantly Shia (80.1%). 6.35% of the electorate is Sunni, 5.27% Maronite, 3.65% Druze, 2.45% Greek Orthodox, 1.8% Greek Catholic and 0.39% from other Christian communities. [3]
The Amal-Hezbollah coalition fielded the "Hope and Loyalty" list. [4] It includes a Baathist Sunni candidate, Kassem Hachem, who is fielded as Amal candidate and officially not sponsored by the Baath Party. [5] [6]
The Future Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Democratic Party fielded a joint list called "The South is Worth It", a list that L'Orient Le Jour labelled "supplementary" to the Amal-Hezbollah list. [4] [6] It includes a pro-Future independent Sunni candidate, Imad Khatib, who has business links to Amal leader Berri. [6] Three Shia candidates (Badruddin, Sharafuddin and Osseiran) were previously close to Hezbollah. [6] Two pro-FPM independent candidates were included in the list, Chadi Massaad (Greek Orthodox) and Mourhaf Ramadan (Shia). [6] Druze candidate Dr. Wissam Charouf is a member of the Political Council of the Lebanese Democratic Party. [7]
"A Vote for Change" list was fielded by the Lebanese Communist Party, the Communist Action Organization in Lebanon and independents. [4] [8] It includes a pro-SSNP independent candidate, Hussein Baydoun. [6] The "National" coalition fielded a list with five candidates. [6]
The two remaining of the lists in the fray took a more confrontative approach towards the Hezbollah-Amal dominance of the local political scene. [6] The "Shibna Hakki" list was fielded by the Lebanese Forces and Shia dissidents, with the Shia journalist Ali Al-Amin on the list. Al-Amin had been publicly labelled as one of the "Shia of the [U.S.] Embassy" by Hezbollah general secretary Nasrallah. [4] [6] Al-Amin and fellow candidate and journalist Imad Komeyha, had been signatories to the 2017 call for fresh elections to the High Shia Council. [9] Ahmed Assaad, leader of the Lebanese Option Party, fielded an anti-Hezbollah list of his own with candidates from his party. [6] The list included Al-Assaad's wife Abeer Ramadan. [6]
| List | Shia (Bint Jbeil, 3 seats) | Shia (Nabatieh, 3 seats) | Shia (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 2 seats) | Sunni (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat) | Druze (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat) | Greek Orthodox (Marjaayoun-Hasbaya, 1 seat) | |||||
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| "Hope and Loyalty" | Ali Ahmad Bazzi | Ayoub Hmayed | Hassan Fadlallah | Yassine Jaber | Mohammad Raad | Hani Kobeissy | Ali Hassan Khalil | Ali Fayyad | Kassem Hachem | Anwar Khalil | Assaad Hardan |
| "The South is Worth It" | Mohammed Qadouh | Hussein Shaer | Hisham Jaber | Mustafa Badruddin | Nadim Osseiran | Abbas Sharafuddin | Mourhaf Ramadan | Imad Khatib | Wissam Charouf | Chadi Massaad | |
| "Shibna Hakki" | Ali Al-Amin | Ahmed Ismail | Rami Ollaik | Imad Komeyha | Fadi Salama | ||||||
| "A Vote for Change" | Ahmed Murad | Abbas Sorour | Hussein Baydoun | Ali Al-Haj Ali | Said Issa | Ghassan Hadifa | Hala Abu Kasm | ||||
| "We Change" | Mohammed Faraj | Abdallah Salman | Ahmed Assaad | Abeer Ramadhan | Rabah Abi Haidar | Adnan Khatib | Kanaj Alimuddin | Minah Saab | |||
| "Kulluna Watani" (We are all National) | Rima Hamid (Sabaa) [6] | Salah Nouruddin | Jamil Balout (Sabaa) [6] | Akram Qais | Fadi Abu Jamra (Mouttahidoun) | ||||||
| Source: Al-Modon, [4] Jaboubia, [21] Jaboubia [22] Ministry of Interior and Municipalities [23] | |||||||||||
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