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Prominent Lebanese | Useful Data | Parliamentary Blocs
Parliamentary Blocs in 2000
Beirut Decision Bloc (18
members, led by Prime Minister Rafic Hariri): Rafik Hariri, Serge Toursarkisian, Nasser
Qandil, Adnan Araqji, Bassel Fuleihan, Walid Eido, Hagop Qassardjian, Yeghia Djiridjian,
Jean Hogassapian, Nabil de Freij, Ghinwa Jalloul, Mohammed Qabbani, Bassem Yamout, Michel
Pharaon, Ghattas Khoury, Beshara Merhej (quit the bloc a month ago), Ghazi Aridi and Atef
Majdalani. |
| Democratic Gathering Bloc (17 members,
led by Druze leader Walid Jumblat): Walid Jumblat, Fouad Saad, Nabil Boustani, Ayman
Choucair, Bassem Sabaa, Marwan Hamade, Antoine Andraous, Alaeddine Tirro, Henri Helou,
Abdullah Farhat, Salah Honein, George Deeb Nehmeh, Akram Chehayeb, Nehmeh Tohme, Elie
Aoun, Antoine Ghanem and Mohammed Hajjar. |
| Resistance and Development Bloc (15
members, led by Speaker Nabih Berri): Nabih Berri, Abdel-Latif Zein, Ali Khalil, Ali
Hassan Khalil, Anwar Khalil, Bahiya Hariri, Yassine Jaber, Ayoub Humayed, Antoine Khoury,
Ali Khrais, Samir Azar, Ali Bazzi, Ali Osseiran, Michel Musa and Ghazi Zeaiter. Two MPs,
Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Beydoun and Mahmoud Abu Hamdan, were expelled from the bloc after
falling out with Berri. |
| Hezbollah's Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc
(12 members): Mohammed Raad, Abdullah Qassir, Hussein Hajj Hassan, Nazih Mansour, Mohammed
Fneish, George Najm, Mohammed Yaghi, Massoud Hujairi, Ibrahim Bayan, Ali Ammar, Mohammed
Berjawi and Ammar Musawai. |
| Health Minister Suleiman Franjieh's bloc
(six members): Suleiman Franjieh, Qaisar Mouawad, Karim Rasi, Fayez Ghosn, Sayed Aql and
Farid Makari. |
| Syrian Social National Party's Bloc (four
members): Asaad Hardan, Ghassan Ashqar, Salim Saade and Marwan Fares. |
| Northern Metn Bloc (four MPs, led by
former Interior Minister Michel Murr): Michel Murr, Antoine Haddad, Emile Emile Lahoud and
Sebouh Hovnanian. |
| National Front Bloc (four MPs): Hussein
Husseini, Omar Karami, Nayla Mouawad and Butros Harb. |
| Qornet Shahwan Gathering's Bloc (three MPs):
Fares Souaid, Mansour Bone and Pierre Gemayel. |
| Tripolitan Bloc (three MPs): Mohammed
Safadi, Mohammed Kabbara and Maurice Fadel. |
| Popular Bloc/Jounieh-Jbeil (three MPs):
Fares Boueiz, Abbas Hashem and Farid Khazen. |
| Baath Party's Bloc (three MPs): Assem
Qanso, Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Rahman and Qassem Hashem. |
| National Gathering Bloc (three MPs):
Abdel-Rahim Mrad, Najib Miqati and Jihad Samad. |
| The Renewal Movement's Bloc (two MPs):
Nassib Lahoud and Mosbah Ahdab. |
| The Popular Bloc-Zahle (two MPs): Nicolas
Fattoush and Elias Skaff. |
| Bsharri Bloc (two MPs): Qabalan Issa
Khoury and Gebran Tawq. |
| Independent MPs (27 MPs): Elie Ferzli,
Issam Fares, Mohammed Abdel-Hamid Beydoun, Talal Arslan, Naamatallah Abi Nasr, Ghassan
Mokheiber, Georges Afram, Jamal Ismail, Qajih Baarini, Saleh Kheir, Mikhayel Daher, Jean
Obeid, Ahmad Fatfat, Ahmad Hbous, Mohammed Yehya, Osama Saad, Sami Khatib, Mahmoud Abu
Hamdan, Nazem Shahid Khoury, Khalil Hrawi, Mohsen Dalloul, Faisal Daoud, Youssef Maalouf,
Mohammed Mais, Robert Ghanem, Georges Qassardji and Nader Sukkar. |
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