LEBANON: SPEAKER SABRI HAMADEH IS RE-ELECTED FOR 24TH TIME.

Record ID: 432242

  • Title: LEBANON: SPEAKER SABRI HAMADEH IS RE-ELECTED FOR 24TH TIME.
  • Date: 22nd October 1969
  • Summary: PARLIAMENT HOUSE, DEPUTY RAYMOND EDDIE; INTERIOR OF PARLIAMENT; FORMER PRIME MINISTER RASHID KARAMI; PIERRE GEMAYEL; CAMILLE CHAMOUN; OTHER DEPUTIES; SABRI HAMADEH WAVING AND WALKING TOWARDS ROSTRUM. Initials KM/VS/BOB/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th November 1969 13:00
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  • Location: BEIRUT, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA8N1VRJK4Q86ACRL1IADMSCUZ5
  • Story Text: SABRI HAMMADEH, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE IN THE LEBANESE PARLIAMENT WAS RE-ELECTED TO THE POST YESTERDAY FOR THE 24TH TIME. HE BEGINS HIS TERM AS THE COUNTRY FACES A NEW CRISIS OVER CLASHES BETWEEN LEBANESE SECURITY FORCES AND PALESTINIAN COMMANDOS.

    THE SITUATION WORSENED TODAY WHEN PRIME MINISTER RASHID KARAMI SUDDENLY RESIGNED AFTER FAILING TO FORM A NEW ADMINISTRATION WITH AN AGREED POLICY ON THE COMMANDOS.

    MR. HAMADEH WAS ELECTED TO THE ONE-YEAR TERM BY A SIMPLE MAJORITY OF THE 99 DEPUTIES IN THE HOUSE.HIS MAIN SUPPORT CAME FROM FORMER PREMIER KARAMI'S PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRATIC BLOC WHICH THREW ITS 34 VOTES BEHIND HIM.

    THE 64 YEAR-OLD SPEAKER'S CHIEF OPPOSITION CAME FROM KAMEL ASSAAD, A DEPUTY FROM SOUTH LEBANON WHO HELD THE POST IN 1964 AND AGAIN IN 1968.
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