This picture taken on April 18, 2018, shows a graffiti on a wall in the Lebanese capital Beirut depicting fictional politicians running in the coming parliamentary polls scheduled for May 6, with speech bubbles below the faces reading in Arabic “Vote for us, no matter. So we can love your mother again.” Lebanese voters and candidates alike are eager for the polling to start nearly 10 years after the last parliamentary elections in June 2009, with stakes running high as the first test of Lebanon’s 2017 voting law that will carve out the country’s political and economic trajectory for years to come.
