Eddy Abillammaa is a Lebanese

Lebanon

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 politician and a member of the executive committee of the Lebanese Forces

Lebanese Forces

The Lebanese Forces is a Lebanese political party. Founded as a militia by Bachir Gemayel during the Lebanese Civil War, the movement fought as the main militia within the Christian-dominated Lebanese Front...

 party. He is the head of the LF party in Matn and its candidate for the upcoming legislative election

Lebanese general election, 2009

-Background:Prior to the election, the process to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 years was put into motion, but as this requires a constitutional amendment, it did not happen before the election.- Allocation of seats :...

 on June 7, 2009 for Northern Matn district.

Personal life and education

Abillammaa was born to a Maronite Catholic family in Jdeideh

Jdeideh

Jdeideh , , is a coastal municipality and the administrative capital of the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate....

, Matn

Matn District

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. He attended Saint Joseph University in Beirut

Beirut

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 and earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a Master's degree in Business Computing. He has also obtained a Post Graduate Research Degree from the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik

Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik

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. He is married to Rana Ghrayeb.

Political career

In 1981, Abillammaa helped in launching the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation

Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation

The Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation , widely known as LBC, is the first private television station in Lebanon. It went global in 1996 when it launched its satellite channel LBC Al-Fadha'iya Al-Lubnaniya covering the Arab World. It now has several channels covering Europe, America, Australia, and...

 and joined the LF in 1982. In that same year, he joined the LF headquarters in Karantina

Karantina

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 then he became the head of the International Media Relations department in 1984. He was appointed as head of the LF party in Beirut in 2000 and was a member of Qornet Shehwan Gathering

Qornet Shehwan Gathering

The Qornet Shehwan Gathering is a Lebanese political organization, comprising politicians, intellectuals, and businessmen, mostly Christian and ranging in ideology from the centre-right to the center-left. The organization is not a political party in the classical sense: its members belong to,...

between 2001 and 2005.