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Legislative Branch Reform – 1990

In August 1990, the legislature made constitutional revisions including provisions related to seats in the parliament. According to the revisions, the parliamentary seats will be equally divided between Christians and Muslims in an in an expanded 108-member Parliament.[fn]”Human Rights Report- Lebanon,” U.S. State Department Dispatch, February 1, 1991.[/efn_note] The seats were further divided between all of Lebanon’s 18 officially recognized religious sects.[fn]”Lebanon Election – Lebanon’s election system,” accessed April 5, 2011, http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/lebanon2009/2009/06/20096211481936043… The increases of nine seats (from 99 to 108) were to be Muslim seats allocated to areas with Muslim demographic concentration.