Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri received on Monday a delegation of the Progressive Socialist Party including MP Wael Abu Faour, MP Akram Chehayeb and Hisham Nasreddine.

Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri received on Monday a delegation of the Progressive Socialist Party including MP Wael Abu Faour, MP Akram Chehayeb and Hisham Nasreddine.

The delegation, led by Abu Faour, informed Berri that the vote law proposal he had made does not lead to the best representation for all the Lebanese.

"The relationship between Speaker Berri and MP Walid Jumblatt is not governed by mutual noes but by permanent joint quest to produce middle-course formulas,” Abu Faour said.

“This applies to the electoral law, the formation of the government, and the relationship with Berri to reach common proposals and perceptions,” he added.

Abu Faour made it clear that the proposal submitted by Speaker Berri is not a perfect proposal and might not lead to a fair representation for all Lebanese and to full national reconciliation.

“The debate is still continuing to reach a common vision soon in order to obtain a national consensus," he said.

Berri had reportedly proposed to the PSP chief, MP Walid Jumblat, a hybrid plan, under which 55 to 60 percent of candidates are elected via the winner-takes-all system on condition that it is based on the one-man one-vote formula.

The remaining 40 to 45 percent of lawmakers would be elected under the proportional representation system. The proposal also merges Shouf and Aley into a single constituency.

Berri, on the other hand, regretted Jumblatt’s decision, saying that the suggested vote law was in the latter’s favor.

Berri stressed that the introduction of proportionality in the new draft-law was important to lay a developed Lebanese political system in the future.

The majority of the parliamentary blocs agree on rejecting the 1960 law that considers the district a constituency and is based on the winner-takes-all system. However, the lawmakers have failed to agree on a new vote law.

Berri is trying his best to make all the parties legislate a new vote law ahead of a May 15 parliamentary session that will discuss only the Orthodox Law Proposal if the MPs fail to reach an agreement on the vote law.