Edited sentence: A  Brooklyn Rail editorial lamented that while the movement had been "a meeting ground between different factions" it has since become "sidelined with the resurgence in sectarianism".Criticism of the DLM arises both inside and outside the party.Externally,  Socialist Workers, a socialist newspaper in the United Kingdom, accused the movement of complicity for civilian deaths in Lebanon's 2007 Nahr al-Bared Conflict.He also accused it of oversimplifying the issue of  seccularization and of lacking clarity and consistency in its positions.Internally, Ziad Majed, a former DLM vice president, admonished the movement's current leadership for failing to act independently of the March 14 Alliance or develop and lobby for alternatives to the status quo.Lastly, an article in the London Review of Books, a literary and political magazine, called the DLM "stalled in disagreements and distractions" and chastised "a single seat in parliament and an ascendant Islamic resistance in the south are all the movement has to show for opposing many of Hariri’s policies, on the one hand, and campaigning against Syrian hegemony on the other".The National Assembly sets up the political priorities, alliances and rhetoric, and elects an Executive Bureau for daily follow-up on various issues.The general assembly elects a National Committee on the basis of proportional representation, where every current forms a list