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  • Scenes from election day in North Lebanon.
  • It is election day in Lebanon. In Zahle voters show their blue finger, check the voter register, two nuns go to vote and one voter shows support through painting their car orange in support of the Free Patriotic Movement. In Beirut in Sodeco trouble at the polling station results in the army having to take away by force one supporter and the sister of Nadim Gemayel tries to interfere but is lead away by her bodyguards.
  • Lebanese vote at a polling station at the St. Antonios school in Kfarshima, Baabda district, southeast of Beirut.
  • Beirut on the last day before the elections is calm. Supporters of Nadim Gemayel are visited by his sister who distributes the ballot papers. Nicholas Sehnoui, the Free Patriotic Movement Catholic candidate for Beirut One visits supporters. Posters of of Sehnoui and Abou Jamra have been vandalized. The last picture is the pre-printed ballot paper issued by the March 14 coalition in Beirut One .
  • Aoun delivered a speech in Beirut to gavalnize support for the upcoming elections. Aoun focused much of his speech on past crimes in the civil war stating that the FPM had no blood on its hands. Aoun went on to state that though Lebanon should move forward those that committed crimes should stand down from public office.
  • A collection of billboards from around the whole of Lebanon showing the diversity of the elections campaign.
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