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Legislative in Lebanon: last hours of campaign in Mount Lebanon
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Ghassan Germanos, candidate on the independent list "We are the change" in the Mont-Liban 1 constituency during his last campaign meeting in the village of Akoura, May 13, 2022. © Nicolas Falez / RFI
Text by: Nicolas Falez Follow
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The election takes place in a country in the midst of economic collapse, between electricity shortages, currency devaluation, inflation and the exile of the working population to seek work abroad.
Despite the outbursts of anger in recent years, the major politico-confessional parties that share power do not feel threatened by this Sunday's vote.
However, they will have to face independent lists.
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With our special correspondent in Akoura,
Akoura, on the heights of Mount Lebanon.
A breathtaking landscape, at more than 1600 m altitude.
In the parish hall, Ghassan Germanos gathered a few dozen villagers for his last campaign meeting.
Former dentist converted into agriculture and recently into politics, Ghassan Germanos is very active on social networks.
His list We are the change claims to be part of the Thawra, literally the "Revolution", the
protest movement that broke out in 2019
.
In his constituency of Mount Lebanon, Ghassan Germanos campaigned with few resources against the powerful traditional parties.
“
We see lists that spend millions of dollars, these billboards, these people on TV sets… For me, with a few thousand dollars, donations that we have mainly received from expatriates and volunteers of the region, we did our campaign
, ”he explains to RFI.
“
I have never been invited on a TV set.
Our entire campaign was done on social networks,
”says the candidate for the We are the change list.
Ghassan Germanos and his relatives are also in competition with another list claiming change.
Even if some of its candidates are former elected officials or from traditional parties, here, as in other constituencies, the opposition risks suffering from its divisions.
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