Lebanon's political, social, and economic reality comprises a number of constants on the one hand and variables on the other. The constants mentioned in the previously published report relate to the nature of sectarianism, a political system based on clientelism and power-sharing between different sects prior to the civil war and then amongst the ruling warlords after 1990, as well as to the nature of the rentier and service economy that has wiped out industry and agriculture, creating an uneven distribution of income and social class disparity. As for the variables, the most important ones that have taken place internally include the recent parliamentary elections (May 2022), where a shift in the popular mood, including a general discontent with the existing political parties and the ruling political classes of the country was reflected at the ballot box, resulting in the election of thirteen deputies from various Lebanese regions now referred to as the Deputies of Change. This shift in popular mood also won the opposition two parliamentary seats in the third constituency of the South, previously considered impossible or taboo. The decline in the popularity of the Free Patriotic Movement, the party of the President of the Republic, the de-election of several deputies, and a decrease in the number of parliamentary blocs was also significant.  Furthermore, for the first time since 1992, political Harirism was absent from the political scene, with the Future Movement refraining entirely from running in the parliamentary elections.