Ghazi al-Yawar
Ghazi Maschal Ajil al-Yawar ( Arabic غازي الياور Ghāzī al-Yāwar , also Ghasi al-Jawar ; * March 11, 1958 in Mosul / Iraq ) is an Iraqi tribal leader and politician . He was elected on June 1, 2004 by the Iraqi Governing Council as the first President of Iraq after Saddam Hussein . Adnan Patschatschi ,previously nominated by the UN Special Representative Lakhdar Brahimi ,hadresignedfromoffice. From April 2005 to April 2006 he was Vice President of the first democratically legitimized government in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Sunni al-Yawar, then 46 , became chairman of the transitional council in May 2004 after his predecessor was assassinated. He is regarded as a politician willing to reconcile and has recently expressed criticism of some Iraqi politicians as well as of the United States' draft UN resolution (on June 9, 2004, following changes - with the participation of Iraq - it was passed unanimously ( UN resolution 1546 ) and gives the government a say in relation to the occupation forces).
Ghazi al-Yawar is an important sheikh of the Shammar tribe , which is widespread in Arabia and which also includes the mother of the king of Saudi Arabia , Abdullah , and comes from Mosul in northern Iraq. Since the Shammar also include Shiites , the tribal leader was seen by many as an opportunity to represent Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity.
In the first free elections in the post-Saddam era, al-Yawar led the largest Sunni candidate list, The Iraqis . It received around 150,000 votes, which corresponds to a share of 1.8%. This made the party the fourth strongest force and got five of 275 seats in the National Assembly.
In the Iraqi government at the time, al-Yawar was appointed vice president along with the Shiite Adil Abd al-Mahdi . He was thus the deputy of the then Iraqi President Jalal Talabani .
Al-Yawar resigned from office in April 2006 and retired into private life.
Al-Yawar is an engineer who studied in Saudi Arabia for two years but graduated in the UK .
literature
- Ghasi al- Jawar , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 23/2005 from June 11, 2005, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Frankfurter Rundschau : Dossier "Iraq after the war" ( Memento from December 5, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) - with articles on the new political order and picture galleries
swell
- ↑ Michael Howard: Profile: Sheikh Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar. June 2, 2004, accessed November 26, 2018 .
- ^ Iraq election poster (President, Ghazi al Yawar). Accessed November 26, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | al-Yawar, Ghazi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | al-Jawar, Ghazi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iraqi politician and president |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mosul , Ninawa , Iraq |