Beirut Madinati (

Beirut Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...

My City) is a volunteer-led political campaign emerged in April 2016 to run in 8 May 2016 Beirut municipality elections and in the 2022 Lebanese general elections. The campaign launched from the 2015–16 Lebanese protests as a reaction to power and water shortages, streets filled with trash and a dizzying urban infrastructure. It built its campaign around a 10 point program where it promises to work on (1) mobility, (2) greenery and public spaces, (3) affordable housing, (4) waste management, (5) natural heritage, (6) community spaces and services, (7) socio-economic development, (8) environmental sustainability, (9) health and safety and (10) municipal governance. Beirut Madinati, bases its core values as being the primacy of the public good, social justice, transparency, and stewardship of their city for

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. During the 2016 Beirut municipal election, Beirut Madinati won one of the three Beirut electoral districts, but lost the over all elections with 40% against the 'Beirutis' list' supported by

Saad Hariri Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri ( ar, سعد الدين رفيق الحريري, translit=Saʿd ad-Dīn Rafīq al-Ḥarīrī; born 18 April 1970) is a Lebanese-Saudi politician who served as the prime minister of Lebanon from 2009 to 2011 and 2016 ...

, and included politicians from both the 14 March Alliance and the

8 March Alliance The March 8 Alliance ( ar, تحالف 8 آذار, taḥāluf 8 adhār}) is a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that are united by their pro- Syrian stance and their opposition to the March 14 Alliance. I ...

, a coalition of traditionally fierce opponents. Beirut Madinati took more than 50% of the votes in the Christian district of East Beirut; it took more than a third of the vote in Hariri’s traditional turf of the Sunni Muslim neighbourhoods, which signaled a shift in local politics of Beirut according to Turkish political analyst Mahmutcan Ateş.

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