Citizens Within a State steps up its challenge to party and family lists

The civil and secular group, “Citizens Within a State”, continues its bold municipal elections campaign with the aim to break the hegemony of confessional/sectarian leaders and in order to build a civil, democratic, just and capable state. The civil movement announced its 11 new nominees (including 4 women) for the South and Nabatiyeh elections planned for the forthcoming Sunday. The names of the candidates are as follows: Six candidates (including two women) in Tyre namely: Lara Qassem, Dunia Halawi, Hussein Fares, Haidar Fares, Mohamd Saris and Amer Halawi; two candidates (including one woman) in Meys Al Jabal (Ali Nassredine and Zainab Khanafer); Mohamed Walid Assi in Saida; Yussef Tafesh in Nabatieh and Fadia Bazzi in Bint Jbeil. It should be noted that the Citizens group previously nominated 13 persons, among them 8 women, to run in Beirut, Beqaa and Mount Lebanon, two women one from Kfarzebian (Mount Lebanon) and the other from Saghbeen (Beqaa) were successful. The names of all candidates are the following:

- Mount Lebanon: 3 nominees (2 women) distributed as follows: Jalal Khoury in Jounyeh, Claude Burji in Jbeil Byblos and Josephine Zgheib in Kfarzebian.

- Beqaa: 6 nominees (including 5 women) distributed on follows: Hadeel Rifai, Yumna Tofaili and Mirvat Wahbi in Baalbaq; Elisaar Sama7ha in Zahleh, Nasri Sayegh in Mashghara and Ghada Ghanem in Saghbeen.

‎- Beirut: 4 nominees (including 1 women), Charbel Nahas, Ghada Elyafi, George Sfeir, ‎Yasser Sarout.‎