Via Reuters: Hariri slate sweeps Beirut poll, turnout low

Candidates led by the son of slain ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri won all the seats in Beirut in Lebanon’s general election on Sunday, a government source said.

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Saad al-Hariri’s anti-Syrian bloc had already won nine of the capital’s 19 seats in the 128-member parliament before the vote because they were not contested. The source said candidates on Hariri’s list had taken all 10 undecided seats.

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But voters denied Hariri the high turnout he sought in the first polls in three decades with no Syrian troops in Lebanon. Interior Minister Hassan al-Sabaa put the turnout at 28 percent.

The capital had a 34 percent turnout in 2024, when Hariri’s father, then cooperating with Syria, also swept the board.