Hammouda Sabbagh

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Hammouda Sabbagh
حمودة الصباغ
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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 (age 62)
Al-Hasakah, Syria, United Arab Republic
Political partyArab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Syria Region

Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh (Arabic: حمودة يوسف الصباغ, 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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  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. ^ a b 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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