Posted on 06/19/2005 12:37:17 PM PDT by Wiz
Lebanon's main opposition anti-Syrian alliance has claimed victory in the final round of the country's four-round parliamentary elections.
The bloc led by Saad Hariri, son of the late Rafik Hariri, faced ex-Gen Michel Aoun's group in the fight for the last 28 seats at stake in northern Lebanon.
Mr Hariri's group says the incomplete results set them on track for a majority in the new parliament.
It was Lebanon's first vote since the Syrian troop withdrawal this year.
Damascus ended its 30-year deployment in Lebanon in response to street protests and international pressure triggered by the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the country's former prime minister, on 14 February.
He was killed in a bomb blast his supporters said was the work of Syria.
Syrian troops were stationed in Lebanon under the accord that ended a 15-year civil war in 1989.
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