Polls open in Lebanese parliamentary election

Polls open in Lebanese parliamentary election

Polls opened on Sunday in Lebanon's first parliamentary election since the country's economic collapse.

Voting was due to begin from 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) across 15 electoral districts, with candidates vying for 128 seats divided among 11 religious groups according to a sectarian power-sharing system.

The last vote in 2018 saw the heavily armed, Iran-backed Shi'ite movement Hezbollah and its allies win 71 of the 128 seats.