and a major increase of Internet speeds (15-fold for the fixed network with an ~80% price decrease and 18-fold for the mobile network with a ~88% price decrease). In 2011, Lebanon was included among 10 countries that witnessed the greatest rank improvement according to the IDI moving up three spots globally and ranking sixth regionally. In 2018, Nicolas Sehnaoui was elected as Member of Parliament for the Beirut I District. In 2022, Nicolas Sehnaoui was re-elected as Member of Parliament for the Beirut I District. Activism Politics In 1991, and alongside Georges Corm, Borhane Alaouie, Karim Kobeissi and Abdel Rahman Ghandour, Sehnaoui co-founded the Lebanese Citizen's Movement that militates for a secular Lebanon. Between 91 and 95 the movement published a monthly magazine, ‘Al Mouaten’ (directly translated as ‘the citizen’), in both Arabic and French and produced a short movie titled ‘If the People One Day’ which calls for the organization of a war tribunal to judge war crimes committed during the Lebanese Civil War. The Minister has also founded the Free Patriotic Economic Committee which he headed between 2005 and 2011. He is now the Vice President of the Free Patriotic Movement for Political Affairs. After the 2020 Beirut explosion, Sehnaoui claimed that the tragedy might have been orchestrated to push more Christians out of Lebanon. References External links http://www.nicolas-sehnaoui.org http://beirutdigitaldistrict.com 1967 births Living people Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni Government ministers of Lebanon Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics Free Patriotic Movement politicians Politicians from Beirut Members of the Parliament of Lebanon