BEIRUT: Change across the Arab world shows Lebanon should implement reforms, President Michel Sleiman said Monday.

“The change we are witnessing around us in Arab countries shows the need to adopt reforms," Sleiman said at the opening of a conference of the Union of Arab Constitutional Courts and Councils at the Bristol hotel, Beirut.

Sleiman said two things require reform: The amendment of the task of interpretation of the constitution to make it the responsibility of the Constitutional Council, and the prevention of politicization of the Constitutional Council.

Sleiman noted that constitutional requirements encompass a new election law that he said would represent all segments.

“Time has come for the adoption of such a law to get out of this dilemma,” Sleiman said, stressing that a new election law “is the basis for reform."