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Saad Hariri said his 14 March alliance would retain its majority in the 128-seat Lebanese parliament. Photo by blogspot.com
The leader of Lebanon's governing pro-Western coalition has claimed victory over a Hezbollah-led bloc in the country's parliamentary election.
Saad Hariri said his 14 March alliance would retain its majority in the 128-seat parliament, cited by the BBC Monday.
A key Christian ally of the Hezbollah-led alliance, which is supported by Syria and Iran, admitted defeat in Sunday's elections.
Official results are due later on Monday. Turnout was more than 50%.
"Congratulations to you, congratulations to freedom, congratulations to democracy," Hariri told a crowd of his cheering supporters in the capital Beirut. "There is no winner and loser in these elections, the only winner is democracy and Lebanon," he added.
Hariri's coalition was expected to win 70 or 71 seats in the new assembly, while the Hezbollah alliance would get 58 seats, Lebanese media predicted.
That would almost exactly replicate the balance which existed in the last parliament.
Analysts predicted that the result would bring another period of political and inter-factional deadlock which has dominated the last four years.
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