In the first session after the legislative elections on 15 May, the Lebanese Parliament re-elected the leader of the Shiite Amal party, Nabih Berri, as head of the House after thirty years in the post.
The re-election was approved at the limit of the absolute majority, with 65 votes in favor, one more than the 128 legislators in Parliament.
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