Head of Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad said that the March 14 group was attempting to sideline Hezbollah politically through their electoral draft law proposal.

Head of Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad said that the March 14 group was attempting to sideline Hezbollah politically through their electoral draft law proposal, the National News Agency reported on Monday, local Now Lebanon news website said.

“The March 14 group is trying, through their proposal for a new electoral law, to keep the Resistance and its supporters away from political life and the participation in state-building, but that is a delusion,” Raad stated, adding: “They will not succeed in staging elections based on the 1960 law since, at least, two of the Lebanese people’s essential constituents have rejected it.”

The MP also slammed the proposal advanced by opposition Christian parties based on small-constituencies proportionality.

“There are still some nowadays who are dreaming of going even beyond the 1960 law in reducing the size of constituencies, and, if they could, they would even base the constituencies on residential buildings and their inhabitants,” he noted.

In August, the cabinet approved an electoral law based on proportionality and 13 electoral districts for the 2013 parliamentary elections. It seeks to replace the 1960 electoral law, which was based on simple majority representation.

However, many March 14 figures spoke out against the approved draft law saying they would support it if it was based on smaller districts, while others said they backed the Orthodox gathering’s proposal which states that citizens should vote for candidates affiliated with their own religious sect.