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<journal-id>0253-9276</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Universidad de La Habana]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[UH]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0253-9276</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Dirección de Publicaciones Académicas de la Universidad de La Habana (Editorial UH) ]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0253-92762019000200065</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Las elecciones de 2018 en el Líbano: ¿cambio o status quo?]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Lebanon&#8217;s 2018 Elections: A change or a status quo?]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hamade]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Sultán]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de La Habana Facultad de Filosofía e Historia ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>288</numero>
<fpage>65</fpage>
<lpage>79</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0253-92762019000200065&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0253-92762019000200065&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0253-92762019000200065&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El presente artículo analiza las particularidades del complejo sistema político libanés y se adentra en las disfuncionalidades sobre las que se articula el modelo de la democracia consociacional impuesto al país por el sistema colonial francés y que parece haberse agotado en los últimos años. El autor explica también cómo la crisis política en el Líbano se ha hecho presente con mayor fuerza desde 2014 y que ni la promulgación de una nueva ley electoral en 2017, ni los resultados de las elecciones parlamentarias de 2016 han podido conjurar las dificultades que se acumularon año por año, hasta llegar a un escenario donde se ha comenzado a cuestionar el sistema político imperante en el país y las fuerzas que abogan por su sustitución han conseguido llegar al parlamento.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract This article provides an analysis of the complexities of Lebanon&#8217;s fragile consociational political system that was prompted by French colonialism. In addition, the author discusses the accumulation of socio-political and economic contradictions behind the development of the current political and constitutional crisis that started in 2014. Furthermore, this article debates the political polarization and deadlocks among governing elites that resulted in a delicate mutual agreement that lead to the construction of a new parliamentary electoral law in 2017. Moreover, it sheds the light on the controversial new electoral law and the results of the May 2018 parliamentary elections.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[afiliaciones sectarias]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[democracia consociacional]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[dictadura de las elites]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Líbano]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[matrimonio interconfesional y particularidad confesional]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Confessional Particularity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Consociational Democracy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Dictatorship of Elites]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Inter-Confessional Marriage]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Lebanon]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sectarian Affiliations.]]></kwd>
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