Scandalous events reported across Lebanon

An election in Lebanon wouldn't be an election without some elements of scandal.

As mentioned before, things in a polling station in Choueifat got heated, to say the least, with voilence breaking out and a polling box being smashed. A short video of the scene can be seen here:

Meanwhile, another video has emerged from north Lebanon which appears to show Future Movement supporters handing out cash in order to encourage people to vote for the party. As reported earlier, Chloe Domat spoke to people in the northern city of Tripoli who predicted such behaviour. The video in question can be seen here:

Elsewhere, Myriam Skaff, who leads the Popular Bloc, accused the Lebanese Forces of systematically targeting and physically assaulting her supporters in the Beqaa Valley city of Zahle.

In a news conference, Skaff accused the Lebanese Forces of reverting to its civil war-era practices, when the group operated as a brutal right-wing militia.

She said she had been submitting complaints to the state all day long, but security forces did not respond.

"We had hoped for this day to pass in a civilised way, but unfortunately we have seen some unacceptable things," she fumed.

The Lebanese Forces dismissed Skaff's accusations, saying that its own members had been hospitalised after being assaulted by supporters of the Popular Bloc.