Chafic Nassif
Chafic Nassif (Template:Lang-ar) was a Lebanese politician and lawyer.[1]
Nassif was one of the founders of the Kataeb Party in 1936.[1] He won the Beirut Minorities seat in the 1937 parliamentary election.[2] He later left the Kataeb Party and became a follower of Camille Chamoun.[1]
Nassif contested the Beirut V - Minet El Hosn seat (allocated to Minorities) in the 1953 general election. He finished in third place with 1,097 votes (21.6%).[3]
He re-entered parliament after the 1957 elections, winning the Minorities seat in the second district of Beirut with 14,471 votes.[4] In 1958 he took part in founding the National Liberal Party and was a member of its Administrative Council.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Michael Craig Hudson (1968). The Precarious Republic: Political Modernization in Lebanon. Random House. p. 165.
- ^ Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 54, 59
- ^ Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 129-130
- ^ Messerlian, Zaven. Armenian Participation in the Lebanese Legislative Elections 1934–2009. Beirut: Haigazian University Press, 2014. pp. 142–143, 151
- ^ Ahrar News Portal. Récépissé numéro 876