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