Beirut Madinati

Beirut Madinati (Beirut My City) is a volunteer-led political campaign emerged in April 2016 to run in 8 May 2016 Beirut municipality elections. The campaign launched from the 2015–16 Lebanese protests as a reaction to power and water shortages, streets filled with trash and a dizzying urban infrastructure.[1][2][3] It built its campaign around a 10 point program where it promises to work on (1) mobility, (2) greenery and public spaces, (3) affordable housing, (4) waste management, (5) natural heritage, (6) community spaces and services, (7) socio-economic development, (8) environmental sustainability, (9) health and safety and (7) municipal governance.[4] Beirut Madinati, bases its core values as being the primacy of the public good, social justice, transparency, and stewardship of their city for future generations.[3]

During the 2016 Beirut municipal election, Beirut Madinati won one of the three Beirut electoral districts, but lost the over all elections with 40%[5] against the 'Beirutis' list' supported by Saad Hariri, and included politicians from both the 14 March Alliance and the 8 March Alliance, a coalition of traditionally fierce opponents.[6] Beirut Madinati took more than 50% of the votes in the Christian district of East Beirut; it took more than a third of the vote in Hariri’s traditional turf of the Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods.[7]

References

  1. ↑ http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2016/04/10/Lebanese-campaign-aims-to-prevent-Beirut-from-hitting-rock-bottom-.html
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  3. 1 2 "About Beirut Madinati". Beirut Madinati.
  4. ↑ "The Program". Beirut Madinati.
  5. ↑ "Beirut Madinati vows to continue work in the capital, says won 40 pct. of votes". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon.
  6. ↑ "Hariri indicates clean sweep of Beirut local elections". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon.
  7. ↑ "Beirut shocks its old guard: The established leaders are jolted by a party of protest". The Economist. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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