page_title: 2018 Lebanese general election
section_title: Hezbollah
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Lebanese general election / Parties / Hezbollah
caption_attribution_description: English: Hezbollah fighters at a ceremony.
context_page_description: General elections were held in Lebanon on 6 May 2018. Although originally scheduled for 2013, the election was postponed three times in 2013, 2014 and 2017 under various pretexts, including the security situation, the failure of the Parliament to elect a new President, and the technical requirements of holding an election. A new electoral law adopted in 2017 provides a proportional representation system for the first time.
context_section_description: On 19 February 2018, Hezbollah general secretary Hassan Nasrallah presented the names of the 13 Hezbollah candidates. Amongst the candidates there were five new faces.
  On 22 March 2018, Nasrallah issued a statement outlining the main priorities for the parliamentary bloc of the party, Loyalty to the Resistance, in the next parliament. He stated that rooting out corruption would be the foremost priority of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc. He described the relation with FPM as 'normal', whilst reaffirming the claim that opponents to the Amal-Hezbollah bloc in Bekaa III had supported 'terrorist groups'.
  The electoral slogan of the party was 'We will construct and we will protect'.
  Overall, Hezbollah performed the best in the case of popular vote in the election, and had substantial electoral vote gains as well.
caption: Hezbollah parade
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