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:“I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.” “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.” “Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a “taxing- machine;” to the contented, a “machine for securing property.” Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.” | |||||||