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Revitalizing the democratic institutions that had fallen, during the years of the occupation, hostage to a patron-client system that marginalized and even corrupted those institutions. A first step would be the holding of free elections on the basis of an electoral law that ensures a genuine representation of the political and cultural diversity of Lebanese society.

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