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Lebanon is counting in the final results of its long-awaited elections, which have seen a number of independent MPs win seats in the parliament.
Lebanese voted on Sunday in the first election since their country's economic collapse. Results so far have shown defeats for Iran-backed Hezbollah and its allies, who are expected to lose their parliamentary majority amid soaring poverty and anger at traditional parties.
The country has been rocked by an economic meltdown that the World Bank has blamed on the ruling class, and the devastating Beirut port blast of 2020.
Some polling centres lacked electricity, forcing voters to use their phone lights to cast their ballots, in a reflection of Lebanon's most painful crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
The last vote in 2018 saw heavily armed Shia movement Hezbollah and its allies - including President Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), a Christian party - win 71 out of parliament's 128 seats.