Original sentence: On April 29, 2007, elections were held internally to elect new members to the movement's National Assembly.The youth list garnered around 30% of the votes in Lebanon and 58% of those living outside the country, enabling all of the list to be elected to the national assembly.Two lists competed, one supported by Elias Atallah and representing the leadership's rhetoric at that time, and the other an all youth-bloc named Keep Left which called for the movement to retain its leftist identity while insisting on being a part of the March 14 Alliance
Edited sentence: Composed of no less than 51 and no more than 101 members, determined proportionately by the size of the constituency, it maintains political priorities, alliances, and rhetoric, and elects an Executive Committee of between 9 and 15 members for daily organizational activities on various issues.In April 2007, elections were held internally to elect new members to the movement's National Assembly.In October 2004, a 77-member constituent assembly elected a 15-member Executive Committee in the movement's first session of internal elections.Internal elections occur every three years.Other organizational bodies include the Legal Committee and Financial Committee.Provincial and district-wide associations are largely autonomous.The DLM operates under a decentralized framework in which distinct currents are encouraged and represented in a national body.The movement's constituency elects a National Assembly, the principal decision-making institution, on the basis of proportional representation, where every current forms a list.Those elected included Elias Atallah as General Secretary (and leader), Nadim Abdel Samad as president, and Hikmat Eid, Anju Rihan, Ziad Majed and Ziad Saab as members.Two lists competed, one supported by Elias Atallah and representing the leadership's rhetoric at that time and the other current an all youth-bloc named Keep Left.While Atallah was reelected leader of the movement, Keep Left attained 30% of the votes in Lebanon and 58% of those living outside the country who participated in an online poll, enabling all of the list to be elected to the national assembly.Youth members constitute a substantial portion of the movement; Elias Atallah stated that a full half of the party's members were 26 or younger.Ziad Majed, former vice president of the DLM, and Elias Khoury, a prominent and founding member, did not participate, citing personal matters as well as disagreements with party leadership