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'Whatever Walid Jumblatt says we do'

15 May 2022 18:51 BST

Elsewhere in Marjayoun, four Druze men voted for Walid Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP).

“I and my friends here are with Walid Jumblatt. Whatever Walid Jumblatt says we do," says 52-years-old Salah Salloum, who works with Unifil, the UN's peacekeeper force along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Four men wearing PSP apparel stand outside a voting poll in Lebanon in the town of Ibl al-Saqi in the Marjayoun district in southern Lebanon (MEE/AJ Naddaff)
Four men wearing PSP apparel stand outside a voting poll in Lebanon in the town of Ibl al-Saqi in the Marjayoun district in southern Lebanon (MEE/AJ Naddaff)

Jumblatt, leader of Lebanon's Druze community, has been one of the country's most prominet figures for decades, playing a major role as a warlord in the civil war and politician since 1990.

"The reason is our conviction of his opinion, his life philosophy and his intelligence on the scale of the Arab world. If he tells you in five days something will happen, it happens. And we trust him entirely. In the end, we hope Lebanon returns to being the Lebanon that we dream of for us and our children.”