Originally posted by Lucin
Lebanon's political system is set up in such a way where an ethnic/religious group has a set number of parliamentary seats according to their population. Therefore it is irrelevant how many political parties Armenians have, it won't affect the amount of parliament seats they have. The Armenian Orthodox community has 5 seats while Armenian Catholics have 1 seat. Also, many Protestants in Lebanon are Armenian, so many times the 1 Protestant seat in the country goes to an Armenian.
But what is slowly happening in Lebanon is that the demographics are slowly shifting toward a greater Muslim majority (Shiites are especially infamous in Lebanon for having lots of kids), so you have some Christian MPs who are essentially serving Muslim interests, because most of their constituents are Muslims. Although I'm not sure how this affects the Armenian MPs.
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