Lebanon's recent parliamentary elections did not go as Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri had hoped. His party, the Future Movement — which his father founded in 1992 — lost 12 of its seats, including five in Beirut, one of its traditional strongholds. President Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement, on the other hand, picked up eight additional seats to become the biggest bloc in parliament. The Shiite coalition made up of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement also gained a couple of seats, while its allies clinched important victories.
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