Lebanese Elections 2018: Tight Security Ahead of Sunday Voting
Local Editor
At 7:00 am Sunday Lebanon will launch its first legislative elections in nine years under "tight security measures," ensuring a calm electoral process.
In details, some 1,800 ballot boxes in 7,000 polling stations will open Sunday around various Lebanese districts.
Relatively, 21,000 security personnel from the Internal Security Forces, the State Security and General Security will be in charge inside polling stations.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Army Units will maintain security around the centers and the roads leading to them, according to local al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Army units carried out their deployment starting Friday in all Lebanese areas under a security plan in which additional units were allocated to areas considered "exceptional." They were marked with "red" to prevent any security repercussions as the result of "atmosphere of electoral tension" in areas of "heated" electoral confrontations at the political and sectarian levels, added the daily.
In parallel, work has kicked off in the central operations room intended to coordinate between the various operating rooms belonging to the Lebanese Army, Internal Security Forces, General Security and State Security.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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