Live blog update| Lebanon Votes
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15 May 2022 11:17 BST

Hello and welcome to MEE's Lebanese elections live blog.

Already thousands have headed to polling stations, with independents hoping for a breakthrough but the broad political calculus expected to stay the same.

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A muslim cleric casts his vote at a polling station, during the parliamentary election, in Khiam, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon (Reuters)
A Muslim cleric casts his vote at a polling station, during the parliamentary election, in Khiam, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon (Reuters)

A poster depicting Lebanon's former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri hangs as children play in an inflatable pool, in the al-Tariq al-Jadida neighbourhood of Beirut (Reuters)
A poster depicting Lebanon's former prime minister Saad al-Hariri hangs as children play in an inflatable pool, in the al-Tariq al-Jadida neighbourhood of Beirut (Reuters)