Hezbollah and allies have won all 23 seats in south Lebanon, the Interior Minister said Monday. Giving, the official results of Sunday's vote, Minister Hassan Sabei said the alliance of Hezbollah and Amal had won, by a wide margin, all 17 of the contested seats. The ticket had already been declared the winner of six other seats in the south where there were no challengers. Sunday's vote increased Hezbollah's legislators in south Lebanon from four to five. Hezbollah has already won a seat in Beirut in the first round of Lebanon's staggered elections that began on May 29. The parliamentary elections in Lebanon, which run through June 19, are the first national polls to be conducted since Syria withdrew all its troops from Lebanon in April, according to a report of the Associated Press.
