Amal Haddad First Woman To Become President of Bar Association
Independent candidate Amal Haddad was named president of Bar Association after the withdrawal of George Jreij.
Haddad is the first Lebanese woman to become president of the Lebanese Bar Association. The results came after candidates George Baroud, Toufic Noueiri and George Jriej, along with Haddad, won the Bar Association elections.
Independent candidate Amal Haddad received 2390 votes. Coming second is majority-backed candidate Toufic Noueiri with 1827 votes. Third in the list is March 14 candidate George Jreij with 1825 votes and the fourth winner in the Bar Association elections is the minority-backed candidate George Baroud with 1713 votes.
Hussein Zbib with 1669 votes took Jreij”s place after the latter”s withdrawal.