(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Syria's opposition National Coalition elected Sunday night here Khaled Khoja as the group's president after its current head Hadi Al-Bahra opted not to run for re-election.
Khoja received 56 votes out of 109, while Yehia Maktabi had 54 votes, Jawad Abou Hatab won 51 and Nasr Al-Hariri got 50, according to sources of the coalition.
The term of the newly-elected president is one year instead of six months after the regulations of the coalition had been amended last week, the sources said.
The coalition's members elected Nader Othman as deputy prime minister, Abdel Razeq Hussein as Minister of Justice and Samah Hadaiya as Minister of Culture.
Ahmad Tama heads the interim government.
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