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Suleiman Urges Adopting Nationality Law, Granting Immigrants Right to Vote
By Naharnet
Jan 23, 2010 - 10:08:28 AM

President Michel Suleiman on Saturday said that "Lebanon is facing electoral, political, administrational, and reform challenges," adding that "reforming laws and implementing them solves a lot of current problems."
Suleiman told his visitors that those challenges include the electoral law, lowering voting age to eighteen years, the right of immigrants to vote, and administrative appointments.

"The country will not advance if it did not respect the resident and immigrant youth of Lebanon, their competencies and achievements, and their right to practice democracy."

Suleiman called for a speedy adoption of the law on reclaiming nationality for immigrants of Lebanese origin in order to grant them the right to vote.

The president stressed that achieving appointments on a non-sectarian basis opens the door for actualizing the abolishment of political sectarianism.