The deputy leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says their candidates and allies won a vast majority of seats in areas where they ran in local elections in eastern Lebanon.
Sheikh Naim Kassem said on Monday that Hezbollah, considered by Israel to be a terror group, and its allies ran in 80 municipalities out of 143 where voting took place the previous day in the Bekaa Valley and won almost all the seats.
Lebanese security forces stand guard outside a polling station as people head to cast their votes for the municipal elections on May 8, 2016 in the capital Beirut. (AFP/Anwar Amro)
He says that includes all municipal seats in the eastern historic city of Baalbek and the major town of Brital along the Syria border.
Kassem says Hezbollah’s opponents secured some seats in six towns in the area.
The Lebanese voted Sunday in municipal elections in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley, the first balloting in the country since 2010.
Results for Beirut are expected later Monday.
— Agencies
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