Parties
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Although almost every party is strongly dominated by a particular faith community, it should be noted that most nonetheless maintain that they are secular.
| Party Emblem | Name (English) | Name (Arabic) | Acronym | Leader or Chairman | Number of seats in 2009 | Political Position | Sect or ethnic group |
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Read more about this topic: List Of Political Parties In Lebanon Famous quotes containing the word parties:“The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,—because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.” “Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.” “This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.” | |||||||