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Wednesday, September 20, 2006


Seniora Stays...


According to this online poll by Al-Balad, a majority of the Lebanese is against the resignation of Seniora's government.


Al-Balad is widely read and is considered to be a fairly independent newspaper (some say it has a Aounist slant.) The poll has been up for a few weeks.

The poll is only indicative of the opinion of online readers who chose to take part of it, but the 9-percentage-point difference is consistent with the Lebanese Parliament's composition (see graphic below).
This assumes that the FPM , Amal and Hezbollah (56/128) are all calling for the resignation and that the March 14 grouping (72/128) are all against it.