Newly elected reformist MPs said they would not compromise in their efforts to change the way Lebanon is run. The parliament has re-elected Nabih Berri for a seventh term as Speaker of Parliament, during the first parliamentary session held since elections on May 15.
Berri received 65 votes from Lebanon’s 128 parliamentarians, less than the 98 he obtained at the start of his last term back in 2018. He has been speaker of Parliament since 1992. In Lebanon’s fragile sectarian power-sharing system, the speaker is always a Shia Muslim.
Berri’s Amal Movement is a crucial ally of its fellow Shia party, Iran-backed Hezbollah.
