Barham Salih

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Barham Salih (2006)

Barham Ahmad Salih ( Kurdish بەرھەم ئەحمەد ساڵح Berhem Ehmed Salih ; Arabic برهم أحمد صالح, DMG Barham Aḥmad Ṣāliḥ ; * 1960 in  Sulaimaniyya ) is a Kurdish politician and President of Iraq since October 2018.

Life

Barham Salih studied civil engineering at Cardiff University and statistics and computational modeling at the University of Liverpool (PhD). He is one of the leaders of the Kurdistan Patriotic Union (PUK), which he joined in 1976. He has been said to have very good relations with the USA , as he u. a. also represented the PUK in the USA for ten years. In April 2002, he survived an assassination attempt at his home in Sulaimaniyya.

After the local elections in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in 2009, Barham Salih was elected as the new Prime Minister of the regional government in September 2009. He held this office for two years and was then replaced by Nêçîrvan Barzanî .

In September 2017, Salih left the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and one month later founded his own party, the Coalition for Democracy and Justice . His party's aim was to fight corruption in the government. She was supposed to run for the Iraqi and Kurdish parliamentary elections in 2018. Before the Kurdish parliamentary election in September 2018, however, Salih left his party and rejoined the PUK. She was eventually nominated as a candidate for President of Iraq . On October 2, 2018, almost five months after the Iraqi parliamentary election , he was elected President of Iraq through a parliamentary vote.

Previous positions

  • PUK spokesman in London, 1985–1991
  • Representative of the PUK and the Kurdish regional government for North America in Washington, DC , 1991–2001
  • Prime Minister of the Kurdish regional government (PUK version, in Sulaimaniya ), January 21, 2001 to June 2004
  • Deputy Prime Minister in the Iraqi Interim Government , June 2004 to May 2005
  • Minister for Planning and Development in the first freely elected government of Iraq , May 2005 to May 2006
  • Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
  • National Security Minister (acting)

Web links

Commons : Barham Salih  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAZ.net October 2, 2018: Barham Salih becomes the new Iraqi President
  2. ^ A b New Iraqi government members . In: BBC . May 8, 2005 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed December 2, 2015]).
  3. ↑ PUK expected to accept resignation of Barham Salih . In: Rudaw . ( rudaw.net [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Honar Hama Rasheed: Kurdish Political Heavyweight Announces Plan To Shake Up Local Voters . In: Niqash . ( niqash.org [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Former KRG PM Barham Salih registers own political entity to run in elections . In: Rudaw . ( rudaw.net [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Raya Jalabi: After failed independence bid, disillusioned Kurds to vote in Iraqi ... In: US ( reuters.com [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Honar Hama Rasheed: Kurdish Political Heavyweight Announces Plan To Shake Up Local Voters . In: Niqash . ( niqash.org [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Nalia Corporation: PUK approves return of Barham Salih, nominates him for Iraqi presidency. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Nalia Corporation: PUK nominated Barham Salih for Iraqi President 'unilaterally': KDP spokesman. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ After a long tremendous game: Barham Salih becomes the new Iraqi president . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Barham Salih: Iraq has elected new president . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on October 3, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Salih, Barham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salih, Barham Ahmad (full name); Sâlih, Berhem; د. برهم احمد صالح (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulaimaniyya , Iraq