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Criticism of the government became increasingly vocal, and the power of traditional leaders began to be seriously challenged. In 1972 'Abd al-Majid al Rafi'i, a pro-Iraqi leftist, and Najah Wakim, a Nasserist, were elected to parliament.
6. Najah Wakim, a Greek Orthodox candidate to the parliamentary elections of 1972, won one of the seats allocated to his community in Beirut, thanks to the support of the Sunni electorate, while few Greek orthodox voted for him.
In a Beirut constituency, Najah Wakim, twenty-six-year-old candidate of the Nasserist Union of Working Forces, won the Greek Orthodox seat, to the consternation of the community's leadership which charged he was elected by Muslim votes.
The leftist Greek Orthodox member of parliament, Najah Wakim, a vocal critic of Hariri, also won, but with a reduced share of the vote compared with his 1992 result (MEED, 13 September 1996).
Najah Wakim, the radical Greek Orthodox member of parliament in Beirut, stood down in 2000 rather than tolerate what he described as Syrian interference in the electoral process.
Former MP and the head of the People's Movement, Najah Wakim, said Taif was not "the solution for the Lebanese crisis, but a document for distributing regional and international roles in Lebanon." "Taif did not provide any decisive solution for Lebanon's crisis because the main sponsors -- the U.S. and Syria -- had no intention of settling the crisis but wanted to divide influence and power in Lebanon between them... Security and foreign policy matters were handed to Syria and the rest, especially economic, was assumed by the U.S.," Wakim said.
A Parliament member shot and killed an armed assailant who broke into his West Beirut apartment today in an apparent assassination attempt, police said. A police statement said Najah Wakim, a pro-Syrian leftist legislator, used a Soviet-designed automatic pistol to kill the attacker.
A staunch Arabist who describes himself as opposed to "everything," Wakim founded the People's Movement or Harakat as-Sha'ab in 1999. The People's Movement is, admirably, one of the most confessionally diverse political parties in Lebanon.
A staunch Arabist who describes himself as opposed to "everything," Wakim founded the People's Movement or Harakat as-Sha'ab in 1999. The People's Movement is, admirably, one of the most confessionally diverse political parties in Lebanon.
