BEIRUT: The Amal Movement re-elected Speaker Nabih Berri as its leader at the end of its 13th general conference, the National News Agency said in a statement Sunday.
The conference featured discussions and meetings held between Amal officials in various Lebanese districts over a span of three months. One of Lebanon’s veteran politicians, Berri was elected the head of Amal for the first time in 1980, succeeding Hussein Husseini, now a former speaker. The movement was founded by charismatic Shiite Imam Sayyed Musa Sadr six years earlier.
Sadr and his two companions, journalist Abbas Badreddine and Sheikh Mohammad Yaacoub, disappeared on Aug. 31, 1978, when on an official visit to Libya on the invitation of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Amal will release a statement Monday including details about the conference.
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