Anti-Syrian groups set to win majority in Lebanon elections

ANTI-SYRIAN rivals battled it out at the ballot boxes yesterday as voters crowded polling stations to vote in the most crucial round of Lebanon’s parliamentary elections.

The most heated contests involved Christian leader Michel Aoun and his allies against a coalition headed by Druze leader Walid Jumblatt in the central Baabda-Aley constituency and against a Christian alliance in the Byblos-Kesrwan district.

A total of 1.25 million people are eligible to vote in the Mount Lebanon and eastern Bekaa Valley regions in the penultimate stage of Lebanon’s first national election without the presence of Syrian troops for three decades.