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In an exclusive interview with #ThisisBeirut, US Envoy #MorganOrtagus stressed that #Hezbollah represents Iran, not the Lebanese people. “The #US supports a strong #Lebanese state, its army and its institutions,” she emphasized. Morgan Ortagus By Rayan Chami

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Who Truly Represents the Lebanese People? A Response to Morgan Ortagus The U.S. Envoy to Lebanon Former U.S. State Department spokesperson and American envoy to Lebanon Morgan Ortagus recently claimed that Hezbollah and Sheikh Naim Qassim “do not represent the Lebanese people.” But the numbers from Lebanon’s 2022 parliamentary elections tell a very different story. In those elections, Hezbollah secured 344,882 votes, while its main ally, the Amal Movement, received 190,663 votes. Together, the two core factions of the Lebanese Resistance bloc amassed 535,545 votes, a figure that dwarfs that of their rivals. On top of this, Hezbollah and Amal transferred around 45,000 votes to bolster their allied candidates, further expanding their influence. By contrast, the Lebanese Forces, widely recognized as the most pro-Israeli American political party in Lebanon, garnered only 183,771 votes, barely half of what Hezbollah alone secured. Even when combined with their allies, including Walid Joumblatt’s bloc and other factions, their total reached just 338,715 votes, a figure still smaller than Hezbollah’s tally alone. The imbalance is further highlighted by Lebanon’s notoriously flawed electoral system. Under the current rules, one Hezbollah parliamentarian needed 48,000 votes to secure a seat. Meanwhile, a party like the Kataeb, with only around 33,000 votes in total, managed to claim four parliamentary seats. Such distortions illustrate how the system underrepresents the very forces that hold the largest share of popular support. So when Ortagus dismisses Hezbollah and the Resistance as marginal forces, she is not only contradicting the facts, she is denying the democratic choice of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese voters. More importantly, she is ignoring the reality on the ground: Hezbollah and its allies are not fringe actors but a central pillar of Lebanon’s political and social fabric. If Washington and its local proxies continue to push decrees aimed at disarming the Resistance, they may soon witness the real measure of representation, not in parliamentary figures, but in millions of Lebanese taking to the streets to defend the only force they believe has safeguarded the country’s sovereignty.

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