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2009 Parliament Gathers Between Young and Old Members
Following Sunday’s legislative elections, Lebanon has a new parliament gathering young and old members.
Out of 128 members of the legislature the Lebanese elected new members whose ages range between 26 and 40 years. Nayla Tueni is now parliament’s youngest member; Abdel Latif el-Zein is the elder parliamentarian at 79.
Zein is a veteran member of parliament for 50 years. He has served 10 presidents, 4 speakers of parliament and countless prime ministers, and is looking forward to run again in 2013.
“In the past an MP would run for election single handed or allied with someone else. Today we have party and movement alliances,” Zein said to the daily pan-Arab al-Hayat on Wednesday.
Zein remembers the time when the Israelis arrested him during the 1982 invasion, to be later released following the intervention of U.S. envoy to Lebanon at the time Philip Habib.
He regrets electing former President Suleiman Franjieh Sr. to office in 1970 who won his term by one vote.
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by jean-paulMs. Tueini is the youngest, chapeau bas. however, I read somewhere, that MP Dori Chamoun was the eldest member. here u say MP zain are the civil records of those so messed up so as to run different stories? or someone did not do his/her homework well?