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Lebanon's Voters Signal a Desire for Change, but Reform Will Come Slowly

May 17, 2022 | 20:12 GMT

A voter casts her ballot in Lebanon's May 15, 2022, parliamentary election at a polling station in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

A voter casts her ballot in Lebanon's May 15, 2022, parliamentary election at a polling station in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

(LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images)

Parliamentary election results in Lebanon highlight voters' growing desire to escape Beirut's political paralysis, but small changes in the legislature probably won't be enough to produce the sort of economic reforms needed to ease the country's financial crisis....

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