Hammouda Sabbagh
حمودة الصباغ
Speaker of the People's Assembly
Assumed office
28 September 2017
PresidentBashar al-Assad
Preceded byHadiya Khalaf Abbas
Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Baath Party
Assumed office
22 April 2017
Personal details
Born (1959-02-10) 10 February 1959
Al-Hasakah, Syria, United Arab Republic
Political partyArab Socialist Baʻth Party

Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh (Arabic: حمودة يوسف الصباغ ALA-LC: Ḥammūdah Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh, born 10 February 1959)[1] is a Syrian politician who has been the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria since September 2017.[2] He is the first Syriac Orthodox Christian[3] to have held the post,[4] and overall the second Christian to hold that post since Fares al-Khoury.[5] He was elected speaker of parliament with 193 votes out of 252.[5]

In January 2019, Sabbagh considered the campaigns on social media criticizing the regime and its government to be controlled by anonymous third parties.[6]

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References

  1. ↑ عضو مجلس الشعب: حمودة صباغ بن يوسف (in Arabic)
  2. ↑ Election de Hammouda Sabbagh comme président de l’Assemblée du people (in French)
  3. ↑ Official Reception in Honor of His Excellency Speaker of the Syrian Parliament Mr. Hammouda Sabbagh
  4. ↑ انتخاب مسيحي أرثوذكسي رئيسًا لمجلس الشعب السوري (in Arabic)
  5. 1 2 Un chrétien élu à la tête du Parlement syrien (in French)
  6. ↑ "Regression of services and living conditions: Regime's incubator raging". enab baladi. 23 January 2019.


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