Sultan Saeed Abdullah al-Barakani (; born 1956) is a

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast an ...

i politician and the current speaker of the

Yemeni House of Representatives The House of Representatives (''Majlis al-Nuwaab'') is the lower house of the Parliament of Yemen. It shares the legislative power with the Shura Council, the upper house. The Assembly of Representatives has 301 members, elected for a six-year ...

since 2019. Al-Barakani was born in 1956 in

Al-Maafer District Al Maafer District ( ar, مديرية المعافر) is a district of the Taiz Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 110,924 inhabitants. Location It is located in the southern part of Taiz governorate. it is borde ...

Taiz Taiz ( ar, تَعِزّ, Taʿizz) is a city in southwestern Yemen. It is located in the Yemeni Highlands, near the port city of Mocha on the Red Sea, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is the capital of Taiz Governorate. With a populat ...

Governorate. He is a GPC MP, and was elected as new speaker of the

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

during a session held in

Seiyun Seiyun (also transliterated as ''Saywun'', ''Sayoun'' or ''Say'un''; ar, سَيْئُوْن Hadhrami pronunciation: , Literary Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩪𐩺𐩱𐩬 ''S¹yʾn'') is a city in the region and Governorate of Hadhra ...

on 13 April 2019. This was the first session for the parliament loyal to the internationally recognized government of Yemen since the Yemen civil war started in 2015.

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Living people Speakers of the House of Representatives (Yemen) Yemeni politicians People from Taiz Governorate General People's Congress (Yemen) politicians 1956 births {{Yemen-politician-stub