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Directorate General of Lebanese Interior Ministry sets deadline dates for submitting the electoral permissions and for withdrawing the nominations:

A-The period for submitting the permissions ends at the hour 24 of Friday on 18/8/2000 for Beirut, Bekaa and South Provinces and their Districts.

B-The period for withdrawing the nominations ends at the hour 24 of Wednesday on 24/8/2000 for the above mentioned Provinces and their Districts.

  • BEIRUT PROVINCE

A celebration was set for the List of "National Accord" in Bachoura, attended by its members, headed by MP Tammam Salam, who pronounced a speech saying that "The Accord will remain our pioneer for the future".

President Hariri's media office replied on the Official Media, saying, "Our reply will be through the Ballot Boxes". President Rafic Hariri attended festivals for his Beirut Dignity list in the Capital, and said that there exists a battle in the three Beirut Districts, and that the elections are not packaged, where all should vote.

  • SOUTH PROVINCE

President Nabih Berri, and during the inauguration of the Schools Campus in Deir Zahrani, addressed people saying: "Your support to the list of "Resistance and Development" is a rejection for considering the South as being a weak point." He insisted on keeping the alliance with Hezbollah till after the elections.

Sunni Dr. Abdul Rahman Bizri, Former Minister Nazih Bizri's son, announced his withdrawal, during a press conference.

Unknowns riding a civil car, shot fire on Former House Speaker Kamel Asaad's palace in Kartibnit, Nabatieh, on midnight, the day before yesterday, the guards replied on the shooting, but no injuries were reported. President Asaad will launch a press conference, in his palace in Kfartibnit, on Monday to express his reaction against the shooting accident and the breaking in of the Security forces to his palace.

Ambassador Khalil Kazhem Khalil withdrew saying that the "Membership of the Parliament is now losing its simplest formulaes, and became of no aim, or responsibility".

  • BEKAA PROVINCE

Maronite Samir Khater withdrew.

"Popular Mass" list members attended a festival in Kfar Zibd, in the presence of the Chief and members of the Municipal Council, Mayors and crowds of citizens. MP Nicola Fattouch regretted the mean level reached in the political speech, whereas MP Khalil Hrawi said that no peace could be achieved without Syria.

Sound bomb was thrown on MP Abdul Rahim Mrad in Chtaura at his residence, leaving no harms or injuries. He held a press conference in his residence in Chtaura, saying "We wished to have civilized means used in these elections", warning "the directions performing such deeds are sensing their failure, so they use such harmful methods."

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