Alwaght- Lebanese legislators re-elected Tuesday Nabih Berri as parliament speaker for a seventh consecutive term.
According to AFP, the veteran politician clinched a new four-year term during parliament's opening session with the votes of 65 of 128 Members Parliament.
Aged 84, Berri is one of the longest-serving chiefs of any parliament in the world, having held his post for 30 years. The reelection cemented his reputation as an immovable centerpiece of the Lebanon's political landscape.
Berri will preside over a deeply fragmented parliament prone to the kind of deadlock that has paralyzed Lebanese politics.
