A campaign built around access
LUPD relaunched its My Right campaign for the elections held in May 2025. Its immediate demands were concrete: use ground-floor rooms for voting and operate lifts where they existed. The organisation had raised these issues in earlier elections; an attempt to use courtyard tents had proved unsuccessful. Before the 2025 vote, campaigners approached the relevant ministries and worked through civil-society alliances and organisations of persons with disabilities. The campaign treated voters as people able to influence public decisions and press for their rights. [2]
Observers and voters supplied the evidence
The campaign’s summary records 103 accredited observers visiting 261 selected polling centres in 171 towns and cities. Together, those centres contained 2,231 polling rooms. Volunteers received training and used a form covering the accessibility of premises, violations affecting voters and interviews with disabled voters themselves. These figures describe the campaign’s observation work; they are not a national accessibility score. The method gave the organisation documented problems to take back to officials, alongside the experiences of people directly affected. [2]
Election support has several responsibilities
UNDP places inclusive participation within its broader Lebanese Electoral Assistance and Parliament Support Project, covering 2024–2027. The project describes support for electoral administration, monitoring, reform and parliamentary work. Its stated objective includes the participation of people with disabilities as voters, candidates and decision-makers. For the 2025 local elections, UNDP reports training tools for polling officials, voter information and post-election reviews. That institutional work provides context for the disability organisation’s scrutiny, while responsibility for running elections remains with the competent public authorities. [3]
Access must preserve a voter’s choice
The report’s recommendations included better coordination over accessible ground-floor polling rooms, training for polling staff and voting booths that preserve secrecy. UNDP’s publication notice also identifies missing assistance measures and discrimination among the continuing obstacles. These findings show why an accessible entrance alone cannot establish that somebody voted independently and with dignity. Registration arrangements, staff conduct and the privacy of the ballot matter together. LUPD’s report is a record of the 2025 election experience and a programme of proposed improvements, rather than proof that those improvements have since been delivered everywhere. [2][1]