Hammouda Sabbagh
Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh is a Syrian politician who served as Speaker of the People's Council of Syria from 28 September 2017 until 12 December 2024. He was the first Assyrian Christian to have held the post, and overall the second Christian to hold that post since Fares al-Khoury. He was elected speaker of parliament with 193 votes out of 252.
He was the last Speaker under the Ba'athist regime, before the parliament was suspended after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.