Lebanese showing somekind of a maturity when it comes to the elections

[X]

On the Forum and outside the Forum we hear people talking "Ashrafiyeh will not forget who burned the city and will vote against February 5", "People will not forget May 7", "Batrounis will not forget the Soujod incident" and so on.

On the ground, in Ashrafiyeh, the huge huge huge majority will vote regardless of what happened in February 5th, those who will vote for the opposition will vote for the opposition because they believe in the political line, not because of what happened on February the 5th, and those who will vote for the loyalists will vote for the loyalists no matter what happened on February the 5th.

All the polls being done, all the interview with the people, very small percentage (less than 5%) will be voting as a rection to an incident.

P.S. I am talking about people from the both sides.

[Anny]

Originally Posted by X

On the Forum and outside the Forum we hear people talking "Ashrafiyeh will not forget who burned the city and will vote against February 5", "People will not forget May 7", "Batrounis will not forget the Soujod incident" and so on.

On the ground, in Ashrafiyeh, the huge huge huge majority will vote regardless of what happened in February 5th, those who will vote for the opposition will vote for the opposition because they believe in the political line, not because of what happened on February the 5th, and those who will vote for the loyalists will vote for the loyalists no matter what happened on February the 5th.

All the polls being done, all the interview with the people, very small percentage (less than 5%) will be voting as a rection to an incident.

P.S. I am talking about people from the both sides.

i seriously believe that too.

[zodiac]

Thats the Lebanese way of thinking since ever!!
"3anze law tarit"!
Whatever happens.. whatever their political leader khabbas or switched political agenda or belief.. they will vote for him personally and not even for the political line!

A people mafrouz lal 3adem!

[Revolution1989]

I don't know if I would call this political maturity... Political maturity implies people vote based on a program, a clear adherence to the politics of the majority they are chosing to bring forward not nkayet or because the person is a random cousin, a son of martyr, etc.

And I think May 7 and February 5th are excellent examples of those political programs:

1) violence and religious extremism, community based view of lebanon, "umma" notion punishing infidels for whatever happened in Denmark
2) "organized" violence to reach a pseudo balance of power and force and end to a status-quo (ultimately resulting in net gains for Achrafieh but might not necessarily be the case every time)

[>Watani<]

هذه الأحداث تأتي مناصفة بين الفريقين المعارض والموالي! فـ7 أيار انحسب على الفريقين فكلاهما لم يقصرا ببعضهم البعض، وأتت الدوحة وأزالت أثرها
ولكن هل زيارة العماد عون إلى إيران وسوريا التي لم يفهم البعض حتى الآن أبعادها، أثرّ على بعض المناصرين أو المقربيّن؟
حسبما قرأنا من نتائج إحصاءات بُعيد الزيارات هناك تفاوت بالنضج السياسيّ
وحدها الإنتخابات ستحددّ مدى ثقة الناس بالعماد عون والتيار الوطني الحرّ التي ستجددّ 4 سنوات إضافية