List of members of the 2022–2026 Lebanese Parliament
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Following the 2022 Lebanese general election, 128 members of parliament were elected, including 68 incumbents and 7 women. The election marked significant gains for independent candidates of varying political persuasions and marked the first time since the 1992 Lebanese general election that the Future Movement did not participate.
Salloum was removed as an MP after the Constitutional Council overturned the results in Tripoli in November 2022 and he was replaced by Haidar Nasser.[1]
The Lebanese Parliament is the national parliament of the Republic of Lebanon. There are 128 members elected to a four-year term in multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian and Muslim denominations but with half of the seats reserved for Christians and half for Muslims per Constitutional Article 24. Lebanon has universal adult suffrage. The parliament's major functions are to elect the President of the republic, to approve the government, and to approve laws and expenditure.
The Free Patriotic Movement is a Lebanese political party. Founded by Michel Aoun in 1994, the party is currently led by Aoun's son-in-law Gebran Bassil since 2015.
The Future Movement is a Lebanese political party affiliated with the Sunni sect. The party was founded as a coalition in 1995 led by Rafic Hariri which was known as the Hariri Bloc but was officially founded in 2007. The party is led by Saad Hariri.
Suleiman Antoine Frangieh is a Lebanese politician. He is the incumbent leader of the Marada Movement, and a former Member of the Lebanese Parliament for the Maronite seat of Zgharta–Zawyie, in North Lebanon. Politically he is considered an ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. He is the primary candidate for Hezbollah's faction for the 2022–2024 Lebanese presidential election.
The March 14 Alliance, named after the date of the Cedar Revolution, was a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that were united by their anti-Syrian stance and by their opposition to the March 8 Alliance. It was led by Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt and Samir Geagea, as well as other prominent figures.
The March 8 Alliance is a loose coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that are united by their pro-Syrian stance and their opposition to the former March 14 Alliance. It was the ruling coalition in Lebanon with the government headed by Prime Minister Najib Mikati from June 2011 until March 2013. Main parties of the March 8 Alliance are part of the third Cabinet of Najib Mikati since 2021.
The Skaff Bloc or Popular Bloc, led by Myriam Skaff, is a political party and an electoral coalition in the Lebanese Parliament that aligned with the Free Patriotic Movement from 2005 to 2009.
General elections were held in Lebanon on 6 May 2018. Although originally scheduled for 2013, the election was postponed three times in 2013, 2014 and 2017 for various reasons, including the security situation, the failure of the Parliament to elect a new President, and the technical requirements of holding an election. A new electoral law adopted in 2017 provides a proportional representation system for the first time.
Elias Nicolas Bou Saab is a Lebanese politician. He was a Minister of National Defense, Advisor to the President of Lebanon Michel Aoun on International Cooperation. He was elected Deputy speaker of the Lebanese parliament on May 31, 2022. He was also a member of the founding board of directors of television station OTV.
Beirut I is an electoral district in Lebanon. The district elects eight members of the Lebanese National Assembly – three Armenian Orthodox, one Armenian Catholic, one Greek Catholic, one Greek Orthodox, one Maronite and one Minorities.
Hikmat Dib is a Lebanese Maronite politician of the Free Patriotic Movement. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Saint Joseph University. He was elected to a parliament in the 2009 Lebanese general election and in the 2018 Lebanese general election. He resigned from FPM on 1 March 2022, two months prior to the 2022 Lebanese general election.
Alain Joseph Aoun is a Lebanese politician and former member of the Strong Lebanon bloc in the Lebanese parliament.
Strong Lebanon is the parliamentary bloc of the Free Patriotic Movement and their allies in the Lebanese Parliament. Headed by Gebran Bassil, it consisted of 29 deputies after the 2018 general election and shrunk to 17 deputies after the 2022 Lebanese general election.
General elections were held in Lebanon on 15 May 2022 to elect all 128 members of the Lebanese Parliament. The country has for several years been the subject of chronic political instability as well as a serious economic crisis aggravated by the 2020 explosions that hit the Port of Beirut and faced large-scale demonstrations against the political class.
The 2022–2025 Lebanese presidential election is an ongoing indirect election to elect the president of Lebanon following the expiration of term-limited incumbent Michel Aoun's mandate on 31 October 2022. The outgoing president served since 31 October 2016, following the end of the 2-year presidential crisis.
Camille Dory Chamoun is a Lebanese politician and a member of Lebanon's parliament. In April 2021 he was elected head of the National Liberal Party.
The 2022 Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament election was an election to elect the speaker of the 24th Lebanese Parliament. It was 7th legislative speaker election since the implementation of the Taif Agreement in 1989.
Simon Abi Ramia is a Lebanese politician and ex-member of the Strong Lebanon bloc in the Lebanese parliament. He was close to president Michel Aoun and was affiliated with the Free Patriotic Movement. He was also the chairman of the parliamentary commission of youth and sports.
Voting to elect eight members of the Lebanese parliament took place in the Beirut I district on 15 May 2022, part of the general election of that year. The constituency had 134,886 registered voters out of whom 48,311 voted.
Massad Boulos is a Lebanese-American businessman and political associate of Donald Trump; on 1 December Trump announced that he would appoint him as Senior Advisor on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. He is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany. He supported Trump's presidential campaign in the 2024 United States presidential election, and canvassed for the support of Arab Americans, particularly in Michigan.
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