TEHRAN, May 7 - Lebanon's Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk says provisional voter turnout figure of the country's parliamentary elections was 49.2 percent.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – "This is a new law and voters were not familiar with it, nor were the heads of polling stations," said Machnouk in a news conference on Sunday.
"Voting operations were very slow," he added.
The Hezbollah of Lebanoon looked set to win more than half the seats in the country’s first parliamentary election, according to preliminary results cited by politicians and Lebanese media.
An anti-Hezbollah alliance led by Hariri and supported by Saudi Arabia won a majority in the Lebanese parliament in 2009, but it has since disintegrated.
The latest's figures marked a drop from the 54 percent of voters who took part in the country's last parliamentary elections which was held in 2009.
Machnouk also went on to call on supporters of political parties to avoid celebratory gunfire for the fear of possible casualties.
Earlier in the day, voting begun in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years, with over 500 candidates vying for 128 seats.
Source: Press TV, Reuters
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