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Powersharing Transitional Government – 1990

According to the U.S. State Department Human Rights report, political reforms stipulated in the Taif accord were approved through the constitutional amendments by parliament in August (21) 1990 and signed into law by the president in September (21) of that year. According to the revisions, the parliamentary seats will be equally divided between Christians and Muslims in an in an expanded 108-member Parliament.¹ The seats were further divided between all of Lebanon’s 18 officially recognized religious sects.²“Lebanon Election 2009 – Lebanon’s election system,” accessed April 5, 2011, http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/lebanon2009/2009/06/20096211481936043… The increases of new nine seats (from 99 to 108) were to be Muslim seats allocated to areas with Muslim demographic concentration.

1. “Human Rights Report- Lebanon,” U.S. Dept. of State Dispatch, February 1, 1991.