Welcome to The New Arab’s coverage of Lebanon’s General Election 2022 held on May 15, 2022. Follow live updates, results, analyses, and opinion in our special hub here. Sunni voters appeared to toe former PM and Sunni strongman Saad Hariri’s party line on election day, as many abstained from voting in protest of his absence while others voted for his former associates. Statistics released by the Ministry of Interior by the time poll closed showed low turnout in majority Sunni areas like Tripoli and Saida, where turnout was 23 and 32 per cent, respectively. The previous elections in 2018 had an…