Syria’s spreading violence puts Lebanon elections at risk and threatens to unseat neighbor’s fragile political order

Democracy, elections and voting

Vote delay could destabilise Lebanon

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A Shiite Muslim woman holds up a flag as she listens to a screened speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon’s militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, in Beirut on November 25, 2012. A divisive debate over Lebanon’s electoral law may delay parliamentary elections scheduled.