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Cooperation among the factions was ultimately unimpeded by the incident in Saudi Arabia and, on May 6, 2018, Lebanon held its first legislative election since 2009. It was the first election to award seats proportionally rather than having all the seats in a particular district go to the winning party. Turnout was less than 50 percent of registered voters overall and as low as 32 percent in some districts of Beirut. Hariri’s party lost 12 seats—partly because of the concessions he had made to rival parties in order to break the political stalemate of 2014–16—and his March 14 bloc lost ...(100 of 17994 words)