Lebanon’s new parliament narrowly elects longtime speaker

Elias Jaradi, a newly elected member of parliament from the 2019 protest movement, raises his fist as he arrives to attend the election of the house speaker, at the parliament building, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, May 31, 2022. Nabih Berri, Lebanon's longtime parliament speaker, who has held the post for 30 years has been re-elected for a seventh four-year term with a slim majority despite more than a dozen new lawmakers who won seats running on a reform platform. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)