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Various of people celebrating on streets of Beirut waving flags and playing music and dancing, passing cars honking horns UPSOUND: music2. Young man with face painted white and blue, the colours of Saad Hariri's...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eBeirut - 7 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of people celebrating on streets of Beirut waving flags and playing music and dancing, passing cars honking horns UPSOUND: music\u003cbr/\u003e2. Young man with face painted white and blue, the colours of Saad Hariri's Future Movement party\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop, Beirut Resident: \u003cbr/\u003e\"With God's will this is a glorious day. The 7th of June is a glorious day for us. It is not the day for Hassan Nasrallah.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Two supporters with words written on their back reading: (Arabic) \"As long as the sky is blue, we will not forget\" - referring to slain prime minister Rafik Hariri's memory\u003cbr/\u003e5. Hariri supporters celebrating \u003cbr/\u003eSidon - 7 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e6. Fireworks in sky over Sidon \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of supporters of prime minister Fuad Saniora, sitting on top of moving cars celebrating on the street \u003cbr/\u003e8. Supporters gathered under balcony where Saniora and Bahia Hariri, sister of Rafik Hariri are waving to crowd \u003cbr/\u003e9. Saniora and Hariri holding hands waving to crowd from balcony\u003cbr/\u003e10. People dancing in crowd \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Saniora, Prime Minister and re-elected MP from Sidon: \u003cbr/\u003e\"We should all work together for unity in the city of Sidon.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of crowd celebrating, waving flags\u003cbr/\u003eTripoli - 7 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of supporters of the March 14 coalition celebrating in street, honking car horns and waving flags \u003cbr/\u003e14. Military tank convoy patrolling the streets \u003cbr/\u003e15. Supporters driving along holding flying flags from their sun roof\u003cbr/\u003e16. Supporters honking horns with poster of Najib Mikati, former prime minister and member of parliament who reclaimed his parliament seat in election  \u003cbr/\u003eBeirut, Ashrafieh neighbourhood - 7 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e17. People celebrating, dancing and waving flags, fireworks in sky over Beirut \u003cbr/\u003eBeirut - 7 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e18. Saad al-Hariri standing at front of room as supporters cheer and chanting his name \u003cbr/\u003e19. Supporters listening\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad al-Hariri, Majority Government Coalition leader: \u003cbr/\u003e\"There are no winners or losers in this election. The only winner here is democracy and the even bigger victory is for Lebanon.\" \u003cbr/\u003e21. Various of supporters applauding\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of Hariri standing alongside his chanting supporters\u003cbr/\u003eBeirut - 8 June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e23. Various of Mohammad Al-Amin mosque\u003cbr/\u003e24. Various of Lebanese armoured personnel carriers (APC)\u003cbr/\u003e25. Wide of newspapers stand \u003cbr/\u003e26. Man reading newspaper headlines\u003cbr/\u003e27. Tilt-down of newspaper headlines \u003cbr/\u003e28. Newspaper headline reading: (Arabic) \"March 14 renewed the winning of the majority\"\u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Elie Salem, resident \u003cbr/\u003e\"It does not matter who won, the important thing is that Lebanon has witnessed something in this democratic elections which was missed for a long time.\" \u003cbr/\u003e30. Pan from APCs to cars passing \u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khalil Hajj, resident \u003cbr/\u003e\"We wish from those who won or lost to work for Lebanon and to not be against each other and lose the country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e32. Lebanese army jeep patrolling\u003cbr/\u003eLebanon's majority bloc, known as the March 14 coalition, declared victory early on Monday, as local television stations reported the faction had successfully fended off a serious challenge by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and its allies to grab the majority in parliament.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficial results for Sunday's election were not expected until later on Monday, but the winners were already celebrating by shooting in the air, setting off fireworks and driving around in honking motorcades.\u003cbr/\u003eOTV, the television station of one of Hezbollah's key Christian allies, former army chief Michel Aoun, conceded that the party's candidates who challenged their competitors in several Christian districts had been defeated, preventing a victory for the Hezbollah coalition. \u003cbr/\u003eBut Aoun was able to hang on to his representation in other districts.\u003cbr/\u003eAoun fought a failed \"war of liberation\" against the Syrians in one of the last bloody chapters of the ruinous 15 year civil war and is allied with Hezbollah through a memorandum of understanding.\u003cbr/\u003eLebanese Broadcasting Corporation, a leading private Christian TV station, projected the March 14 coalition to win 67 seats in the next parliament, with 52 for Hezbollah and its allies, two for independents and seven undecided.\u003cbr/\u003eThat would almost replicate the deadlock that existed in the outgoing parliament, in which the coalition bloc had 70 seats and an alliance of Hezbollah and other Shiite and Christian factions had 58.\u003cbr/\u003eSupporters of Saad al-Hariri's Future Movement party celebrated in Beirut, with their faces painted in the party colours as they danced and waved flags. \u003cbr/\u003eHariri is the son of assassinated Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri. \u003cbr/\u003eOne supporter described it as a \"glorious day\" adding that this was not to be Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah moment to celebrate.\u003cbr/\u003eThey were celebrating Hariri reclaiming his seat in parliament as well as reports of a majority victory for the March 14 coalition. \u003cbr/\u003eSaad al-Hariri later spoke at a separate location in Beirut saying the winner from the elections was \"democracy\" and the victory was for Lebanon.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Sidon crowds gathered to cheer on Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and fellow Sidon Member of Parliament, Bahia Hariri - the sister of the late Rafik Hariri - both of whom reclaimed their seats in parliament. \u003cbr/\u003eSaniora is the incumbent member of parliament after winning the seat from Saad in the 2005 election that followed the assassination of Rafik al-Hariri. \u003cbr/\u003ePrior to the 2005 election the Sidon parliamentary seat was held by Saad's brother Moustafa Saad. \u003cbr/\u003eIn Tripoli, supporters of the  March 14 coalition took to the streets claiming victory as the military patrolled the streets eager to avoid the violence that has been common in the city in the past.\u003cbr/\u003eTripoli was the scene of violent clashes early last year - centred around the Jebel Mohsen and Bab el-Tebbeneh area - between Sunni militiamen and forces loyal to Hezbollah.\u003cbr/\u003eThe tense situation led many to fear a resurgence of the kind of violence between internal factions that led Lebanon down the path to civil war decades ago. \u003cbr/\u003eThe election could determine the future of Lebanon following years of political turmoil, instability and infighting between factions which repeatedly brought the government to a stalemate and nearly crippled the embattled country.\u003cbr/\u003eSunday's election put the key players in the current ruling-majority government, widely known as the March 14 coalition, up against the Hezbollah-dominated opposition alliance, known as the March 8 coalition.\u003cbr/\u003eIf the opposition were to win, it would be the first time Hezbollah was positioned to play a major role in the formation 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