Thread by @ejmalrai

#Lebanon parliamentary elections:
#Hezbollah and its allies, including the Christian of @tayyar_official won 60 seats at the Parliament, while the allies of #SaudiArabia and the #US, notwithstanding millions of dollars spent to win the majority, won 42 seats.

For more than 12 years, #Hezbollah had 13 MPs and has always won 12-13 MPs in every parliamentary election. Therefore, saying "Hezbollah lost the majority seats at the parliament" is similar to saying Neo-Nazis were evacuated not surrendered in #Azovstal.

#Hezbollah's Shia partner, the AMAL movement, has 17 seats (as agreed with Hezbollah for over a decade) & continues winning 16-17 seats in every election.

The fight was on the #Christian seat: the pro-US-Saudi-Israel group versus the US-sanctioned group led by @tayyar_official

#SaudiArabia shot itself in the foot prior to the parliamentary election by forcing the popular Sunni @saadhariri out, preventing him from running for the election and dispersing the Sunni votes.
Therefore, all parties looked at how to pull Sunni and Christians to their sides.

Conclusions:
Between NGOs & independents, there r 26 MPs that both sides will try to pull into their group. Even if one single group manages to have the majority, #Lebanon is ruled by religions, sectarianism and consensus.
Bottom line: the #US-#Saudi camp has lost, not Hezbollah.