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THE PARTY OF LEBANON - HEZB LOUBNAN
The Party of Lebanon (Hezb Loubnan in Arabic حزب لبنان) was created in October 2016 by a group of Lebanese citizens from all confessions to engage in politics and promote a vision for a new, truly democratic and secular Lebanon. The motives behind the creation of the PARTY OF LEBANON were the realization that Lebanon's chaotic history over its 74 years of existence was primarily due to the flawed legal and constitutional organization of its society.

Background
Lebanon was created in 1926 as an independent nation in the aftermath of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and adopted the political form of a democratic republic and the constitution of France. When Lebanon took its independence form the French Mandate in 1943, the traditional religious and political leaders of Lebanon twisted the very concept of democracy by farming out to 18 religious communities the rule of the personal status of the citizens according to religious laws, in contradiction with the democratic principle of the Sovereignty of the People whereby no Law applies to the citizens unless they have been voted by an elected parliament and adopted an arbitrary repartition of the state function amongst the religious communities, in contradiction with the principle of equality of rights inscribed in Art. 7 of the Lebanese constitution in a non-writen and never voted agreement called "The National Pact"

Lebanon created a model of "Sectarian Republic" known as "confessionalism" with no equivalent in the world or in history which divided the Lebanese citizens by forcing them, by law, to belong to religious communities before belonging to the Nation, and weakened the institutions by creating inherent conflicts of interests and double allegiances at every level of the State and the public services making Lebanon a divided Nation and a politically weak country in a region itself prey to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and more recently the Shia/Sunni proxy wars.

The inherent contradictions between Lebanon's legal and political organization and its own republican constitution made it a "blocked" society and every chapter of Lebanon's tragic history over the past 74 years can be traced back to this flawed legal construction and the legally imposed division of the Lebanese people according to their religious community.