Beirut Madinati

Beirut Madinati (Beirut My City) is a volunteer-led political campaign emerged in April 2016 to run in 8 May 2016 Beirut municipality elections and in the 2022 Lebanese general elections. The campaign launched from the 2015–16 Lebanese protests as a reaction to power and water shortages, streets filled with trash and a dizzying urban infrastructure.[2][3][4] It built its campaign around a 10 point program where it promises to work on (1) mobility, (2) greenery and public spaces, (3) affordable housing, (4) waste management, (5) natural heritage, (6) community spaces and services, (7) socio-economic development, (8) environmental sustainability, (9) health and safety and (10) municipal governance.[5] Beirut Madinati, bases its core values as being the primacy of the public good, social justice, transparency, and stewardship of their city for future generations.[4]

Beirut Madinati
FoundedSeptember, 2015 [1]
HeadquartersBadaro, Beirut, Lebanon
Websitehttps://beirutmadinati.com/

During the 2016 Beirut municipal election, Beirut Madinati won one of the three Beirut electoral districts, but lost the over all elections with 40%[6] against the 'Beirutis' list' supported by Saad Hariri, and included politicians from both the 14 March Alliance and the 8 March Alliance, a coalition of traditionally fierce opponents.[7] Beirut Madinati took more than 50% of the votes in the Christian district of East Beirut; it took more than a third of the vote in Hariri’s traditional turf of the Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods, which signaled a shift in local politics of Beirut according to Turkish political analyst Mahmutcan Ateş.[8]

References
  1. "Beirut Madinati". Civil Society Knowledge Center. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  2. "Lebanese campaign aims to prevent Beirut from hitting 'rock bottom'". 10 April 2016.
  3. "Beirut Madinati - Executive Magazine". Archived from the original on 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  4. "About Beirut Madinati". Beirut Madinati. Archived from the original on 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
  5. "The Program". Beirut Madinati. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  6. "Beirut Madinati vows to continue work in the capital, says won 40 pct. of votes". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon. Archived from the original on 2019-05-29. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  7. "Hariri indicates clean sweep of Beirut local elections". The Daily Star Newspaper - Lebanon.
  8. "Beirut shocks its old guard: The established leaders are jolted by a party of protest". The Economist. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
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