As part of the My Right Campaign’s follow-up to its demands related to facilitating the voting process for disabled voters, the President of the Lebanese Union for Persons with Motor Disabilities, Silvana Al-Laqis, and the President of the Inclusive Network for Persons with Disabilities, Fadi Halabi, met with Minister of Education and Higher Education Abbas Halabi at his office in the ministry yesterday, in the presence of the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Educational Affairs, Heba Nachaba, and the coordinator between the Ministries of Education and Interior, Hilda Khoury, in the presence of the Prime Minister’s Advisor for Educational Affairs, Heba Nachaba. During the meeting, colleague Al-Laqis emphasized the minimum demands of persons with disabilities, related to the use of rooms on the floors of polling stations, most of which are schools, as polling stations, and the operation of elevators where they exist in those schools.

For his part, Minister Halabi promised to open available rooms in schools on the ground floor and to assign school principals and principals to be present on election day on May 15, with an announcement to be made as soon as possible.