Algerian parliament elects first opposition figure as speaker

Slimane Chenine, the new speaker of Algeria's People's National Assembly, speaks at the Algerian parliament in Algiers, Algeria, July 10, 2019. The Algerian parliament late on Wednesday elected unanimously Slimane Chenine, an Islamist-oriented lawmaker, as the new speaker of the People's National Assembly, lower house of the parliament. (Xinhua)