The student body election at the Saint Joseph University ended YESTERDAY, however until now I still have no idea about the real winner in this election!
Is it the Lebanese Forces? Is it March 14 coalition? Is it the Free Patriotic Movement? Is it March 8 coalition? Is it the “الزحف الشيعي على جامعة بشير الجميّل” (also known as Hizbullah)? Mickey Mouse maybe!
If you check both of the FPM & Lebanese Forces websites (Tayyar.org & Lebanese-Forces.com) you notice that both parties claim they won the election, and to my amazement none of them tell it was a close competition! They both claim they wiped their rivals!
And to amaze us ever more, the FPM people went to Michael Aoun’s place in Rabieh late last night to celebrate their victory, and the Lebanese Forces people did the same thing at Samir Geagea’s place in Maarab!!
I recall the same thing happened last year in USJ, so I think it’s becoming a ritual there. Few thousands students casting their votes, and it takes forever to come out with an accurate final result. Fuck whoever is responsible for that.
Here’s how the Tayyar.org website looked today morning:
… and here’s how the Lebanese Forces website looked like at the same time.
Amusing eh?
ahbal min ba3ed la2announ
So Funny!!!
Well if today’s al-akhbar said that LF won, then DEFINITELY LF won!!! If you read tayyar this morning it talks about percentage voters which is a lame attempt at acquiring popularity when in face the number of seats is the definitive mark of a winner..
(Still mulling the idea that I should lose hope about the Lebanese (and Arabs in general) do not deserve democracy…)
I’m an ex-USJ student (sadly) and I find the elections quite aberant. If I am not mistaken, the Presidents of the respective faculties are supposed to SERVE the students by getting their requests to the uptight narrow-minded doyens, right?
So why in the world do we involve politics in the process? Isn’t it possible to do something in this country without involving the bloody politics? Isn’t university a place where the young generation is supposed to be building a BETTER Lebanon for the future? Instead they fight over some dumb-ass Tayyar and LF non-sense like their parents and like their politicians.
Pathetic. Sad. Hopeless.
chi b ayyer!!
Whoever is winning, Politically, In universities or others … Lebanon is Loosing.
I’m not surprised. This always happens here in Lebanon. There’s never a loser. Both parties always claim victory. Where is the election committee to clear this up?
Both are celebrating and we are still waiting for ELFARAJ.
Thank you.
I think that political election should stop at universities .lebanon should be a secular party but unfortunatly there are still ppl like the writer of this article saying zahef shi3e or mikey mouse…if you read a bit of history u would understand that the shiite second was deprived so the shiite ppl couldn’t afford to go ro universities but now they are well of so they can go. This is not a zahef shi3i el mikey mouse! This is only equality that wasn’t set b4 …stop writing if u know nothing about what u r talking about
I vote for Micky Mouse
In the end one of them is going to win while the other will insist that they are the real winners. Politics in Lebanon is like a bad Mexican soap opera (can you have a good Mexican soap opera?)
I’m an ex-USJ student too, and I couldn’t have said it better than Fadi.
It’s why I never voted in the university elections.
…completely and utterly pathetic.
Christians are divided, hence chirstians lost. Soon, they might even loose their homeland, will they ever wake up and realize what’s going on!?
The results should be officially published tomorrow. But the problem isn’t there. As you and many of yours readers put it, the problem lies in the interpretation of the results.
Because of the bipolarisation of all electoral battles, results have been interpreted as if we were in a two party system, which is far from being the case. At USJ, just like everywhere else in the country, there are deep divides within each camp that are just as deep if not deeper than the divide between the camps. The relationship within the popular base of Hezbollah and Amal for instance are just deep as the ones between the LF and the FPM. The same could be said about the Kataeb and the LF (where the divide is as deep within the leadership as it is within the popular base).
One should go beyond the flexible “we” of the LF (“we” the christians, “we” the LF, “we, March XIV”), and the egocentric “we” of the FPM, and see what lies behind it. If you check out both sites you find no info on how many seats people close to the Mustaqbal won, or Kataeb, or the Ahrar, or Hezbollah…
When discussing a battle between camps that are so heterogenous, it is silly to talk of who one and who lost in global and binary terms. It’s more fruitful and interesting to see how each party fared. And one does that, one can see that with each election, the representation of muslim party is growing, benefiting from the competition between the FPM and the other christian parties (Kataeb, Ahrar, Lebanese Forces), which is bringing more diversity to the student council but also submitting everyone to the countries dominant communal patronage networks.