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Beirut: Lebanon's new legislature narrowly elected veteran politician Nabih Berri for a seventh term as speaker of parliament in its first session on Tuesday.
Berri, 84, won 65 votes in the 128-member parliament.
Tuesday's session was the first since the new parliament was elected on May 15, in the first vote since Lebanon's economic collapse and the devastating Beirut port explosion of 2020.
With parliament split into several camps, none of which have a majority, analysts have warned of the prospect of political paralysis that could further delay the reforms needed to drag Lebanon out of economic disaster.
