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The Parliament of Lebanon is the Lebanese national Legislature . It is elected to a four-year term by universal adult suffrage in multi-member constituencies, apportioned among Lebanon's diverse Christian and Muslim denominations. Its major functions are to elect the President of the republic, to approve the government (although appointed by the President, the Prime Minister , along with the Cabinet, must retain the confidence of a majority in the Parliament), and to approve laws and expenditure. According to its official site, the French name of the Parliament of Lebanon is Assemblée Nationale ( National Assembly ), and the Arabic name is''' مجلس النواب''' ''Majlis an-Nuwwab'' ( Chamber Of Deputies ). ALLOCATION OF SEATS A unique feature of the Lebanese system is the principle of "confessional distribution": each religious community has an allotted number of deputies in the Parliament. In elections held between , Muslims had become openly dissatisfied with this system, aware that their own higher birthrate and the higher emigration rate among Christians had by this time almost certainly produced a Muslim majority, which the parliamentary distribution did not reflect. Christian politicians were unwilling to abolish or alter the system, however, and it was one of the factors in the 1975 - 1990 civil war. The Taif Agreement of 1989 , which ended the civil war, reapportioned the Parliament to provide for equal representation of Christians and Muslims, with each electing 64 of the 128 deputies. Although distributed confessionally, all members, regardless of their religious faith, are elected by universal suffrage, forcing politicians to seek support from outside of their own religious communities, unless their co-religionists overwhelmingly dominate their particular constituency. The changes stipulated by the Taif Agreement are set out in the table below: | ||
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