In the first round of voting in Beirut and its environs on May 29 , the ballots strongly reflected the views of more cosmopolitan Lebanese , who have been galvanized by the assassination in February of the former prime minister Rafik Hariri -- widely viewed as an act of the Syrians -- which brought street demonstrations demanding a new era .
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