Hammouda Sabbagh

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]

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

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
  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. 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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