Lebanese Premier Hariri's list swept all 24 seats of Beirut's municipal council but he failed to get a massive turnout at the polls to assert an unassailable supremacy in the Lebanese capital and over the nation's Sunni Muslim sect, An Nahar reported on Monday.
Hizbullah claimed a victory in Baalbek early Monday, winning all 14 seats of the city's council and defeating Speaker Nabi Berri's Amal list that was backed by the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, the Communist Party and Al Ahbash.
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