Hammouda Sabbagh
Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh (Arabic: حمودة يوسف الصباغ ALA-LC: Ḥammūdah Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh, born 10 February 1959) is a Syrian politician who has been the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria since September 2017. He is the first Syriac Orthodox Christian to have held the post, and overall the second Christian to hold that post since Fares al-Khoury. He was elected speaker of parliament with 193 votes out of 252.
Hammouda Sabbagh | |
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حمودة الصباغ | |
Sabbagh in 2017 | |
| Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria | |
| Assumed office 28 September 2017 | |
| President | Bashar al-Assad |
| Preceded by | Hadiya Khalaf Abbas |
| Member of the Regional Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Baath Party | |
| Assumed office 22 April 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 February 1959 Al-Hasakah, Syria, United Arab Republic |
| Political party | Ba'ath Party |
In January 2019, Sabbagh considered the campaigns on social media criticizing the regime and its government to be controlled by anonymous third parties.
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