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August 5, 2007

Lebanese Vote to Replace Two Assassinated Legislators
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=185FE1D:A6F02AD83191E1603B5809FB3494B6099574F7DCC14957C0 Former Lebanese
President Amin Gemayel is running as a member of the ruling party for
his son Pierre's seat Voters in two areas of Lebanon cast ballots
Sunday to replace two assassinated anti-Syrian members of parliament.

Security forces deployed around Beirut and in Metn, in the mountains
northeast of the capital, to prevent election-related violence in the
two districts.

A candidate from the ruling anti-Syrian majority of parliament is
expected to win the Beirut vote to replace Walid Eido, a Sunni Muslim
who was killed in a bombing in June.







Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel casts his vote in the town of
Bikfaya, Lebanon, Sunday, 5 Aug. 2007But the election to fill the seat
of slain Maronite Christian lawmaker Pierre Gemayel has shaped up as a
test of strength between two Christian camps  weeks before Lebanon's
parliament elects a Maronite as the country's president.

Former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel is running for the seat of his
slain son as a member of the ruling party.  He faces Kamil Khoury, who
is supported by former prime minister and presidential aspirant Michel
Aoun.

Lebanon plunged into a political crisis last November when five
pro-Syrian Cabinet ministers resigned after Prime Minister Fuad
Siniora refused to give the pro-Syrian opposition veto power. 

Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP.




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