True, parliamentary elections were held in all Lebanese territories with the participation of all political strata and parties, but the attention remained mainly on Hezbollah and its ally, the Free Patriotic Movement. Throughout yesterday, the way was opened to create chaos in the polls through a targeted and erratic political and media campaign that began spreading rumors accusing party supporters of causing chaos and “use of violence.” Perhaps the Gulf media in its two parts, the Saudi and Emirati, is more concerned about the unrest that has spread to some areas, which also participated in spreading this propaganda and received people against the resistance, who did not show up. of hate and inflammatory statements on live television. With the start of the counting of votes, and the proliferation of names of winners and losers, the Gulf media focused on the loss of Hezbollah-backed candidate Asaad Rashdan to the south. This limited loss showed the huge focus of these platforms on the party, trying to create an atmosphere of loss and strengthen the event. Sky News Arabia, for example, highlighted Hardan’s disappearance and considered Hezbollah to have “lost ground in its stronghold in southern Lebanon.” The Emirates Network described southern Lebanon as “a territory dominated by an Iranian -backed group” and described what happened when Hezbollah, a heavily armed Shiite movement, was “hit in the parliamentary elections.” For its part, the Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadas channel, which opened its airwaves yesterday to party opponents, continues to incite parties against it. And he believes that what happened in Hardan’s seat is tantamount to saying that “Hezbollah has suffered huge losses.” He also did not hesitate to falsify the facts, describing the problems that emerged in some pens as “violent aggression” carried out by Hezbollah to overwhelm their opponents with the Lebanese armed forces by force of intimidation. their representatives ”! For its part, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat had the headline: “A blow to Hezbollah and its allies in the Lebanese elections,” commenting on Hardan’s place in his expression.
