Sabri Hamadé

Sabri Hamadeh (1902-1976) (Arabic: صبري حماده‎‎) was a Lebanese politician and long-time Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament.

Sabri Hamadeh also written as Sabri Hamadé (preferred French transliteration) or Hamada served as a pioneer in the Lebanese Independence. He worked with the government at that time, including Riad El Solh, the prime minister, and Bechara El Khoury, the president. He also signed the first official Lebanese flag of independence

He served as Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament for five terms:

He played a very crucial role during the Lebanese presidential election held on August 17, 1970. There were three rounds of elections in the Lebanese Parliament that year resided by Sabri Hamadeh. In the third decisive round, and out of a total of 99 possible votes, presidential candidate and MP Suleiman Frangieh received 50 votes against 49 to rival the ruling Shihabist candidate Elias Sarkis, a non-MP. Speaker Sabri Hamadeh, refused to announce the election of a President on a 1-vote difference, particularly as this was Frangieh's own decisive vote as a Member of Parliament in his own favor. As Hamadeh, an ally of the Shehabis, exited parliament in protest, Michel Sassine, Deputy Speaker of Parliament, stepped up and exercised his powers of Deputy Speaker to announce Frangieh as legally elected President. Hamadeh's term ended on 20 October 1970 after Frangieh was sworn as President 23 September 1970. Hamadeh was replaced by Kamel Asaad as Speaker of Parliament.

Sabri Hamadeh was born in 1902 in the city of Hermel, he was elected vice-one and fifty years in a row without a break and re-elected in each electoral benefits to be moved to the mercy of his Lord in 1976 and is in office exercising his constitutional duties. Sabri Hamadeh hails from a family has always been her position and will in Lebanese politics, particularly in the Baalbek-Hermel region, which is a big part Basha Ir Hamadia. Sabri Hamadeh had a lot of political and service achievements, the most prominent was the Lebanese independence movement, where he was an early supporter of the occupants to secure independence also assuming the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies period was a period where he got up in Lebanon economically and culturally. And characterized Sabri Hamadeh, along with moderation in the national political attitudes, openness and breadth of his chest, and the vision have taken the decision and embraced Bhmolath and dimensions.

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