Lebanon to postpone parliamentary poll to 2017
BEIRUT - Lebanon is set to postpone next month's parliamentary elections to 2017 because instability linked to the Syrian crisis has made it impossible to hold a nationwide poll, a government minister said on Monday.
The civil war in neighbouring Syria has stoked sectarian tensions and aggravated long-standing rivalries in Lebanon. This would be the second postponement of the elections, which should have taken place in June 2013.
Now the 128-member parliament is set to delay them for another two years and seven months from November, the minister said.
