Kataeb’s Head of Public Policy and Legislation Lara Saade said on Monday that more than a third of Lebanon's municipalities are officially dissolved or effectively so, a figure likely to increase with the extension. 

"District governors and governors, despite their activity, cannot manage a large number of dissolved municipalities alongside their administrative and supervisory duties in other municipalities. This is what we fear because it will negatively impact the lives of citizens, leading to paralysis in the country and failure to secure the basic needs of citizens," Saade said in an interview with Voice of Lebanon radio station.

'We are trying to alert the Constitutional Council that this extension will extend until 2027, due to the refusal of any political faction to hold municipal elections just a few months before the start of their parliamentary election campaigns, and before the voters' preferences become clear," she noted.

"Municipal elections will not be held in 2025 or in 2026 concurrently with the parliamentary elections, hence the extension will last until 2027. We appeal to the Constitutional Council because trivializing constitutional entitlements and their timing is extremely dangerous, not only for the Lebanese constitution but also for the Lebanese democracy," she affirmed.

"We are in the process of engaging with opposition allies interested in submitting the appeal," she added.

"The Kataeb Party categorically rejects normalization with vacuum or circumventing constitutional and electoral entitlements, as well as the adoption of  'extension' policy in all constitutional institutions," she stated.