Hajjim al-Hasani

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Hajim al-Hassani

Hajjim al-Hasani ( Arabic حاجم الحسني, DMG Ḥāǧim al-Ḥasanī ; * 1954 in Kirkuk ) is a Sunni and Iraqi politician . He was the Speaker of the Parliament of Iraq from 2005 to 2006 .

education

Al-Hasani was at the University of Mosul before emigrating to the United States in 1979 . There he studied agriculture and economics at the University of Nebraska and the University of Connecticut . He then worked in Los Angeles for 12 years , where he became the head of a trading and investment company . While he was in the US, he was in the anti- Saddam - Opposition active and member of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) , which the Muslim Brotherhood is attributed to movement.

politics

After the Iraq war , al-Hasani returned to Iraq in 2003 and worked in the Iraqi governing council set up by the coalition forces . During this time, the IIP developed a great influence in the Sunni province of al-Anbar , which is a stronghold of terrorists. In 2004 al-Hasani helped negotiate a temporary ceasefire with insurgents in Fallujah .

In the interim government that succeeded the Iraqi government council and in which the secular Shiite Iyad Allawi was prime minister , al-Hasani was given the post of industry minister. The privatization program of his ministry did not have much success. While supporting US offensives in Fallujah, he was expelled from the IIP because the party withdrew from the transitional government in protest against American military action and al-Hasani refused to leave his ministerial post.

After the Iraqi parliamentary elections on the 30th January 2005 , in which al-Hasani on the then interim President Ghazi al-Yawar run list The Iraqis took, there were tough negotiations for the post of parliamentary speaker. Since his opponents either had ties to Saddam Hussein's regime , which was unacceptable to the Shiites, were members of the predominantly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance , which was unacceptable to the Sunnis, or rejected the post (Ghazi al-Yawar did) al-Hasani elected President of Parliament as a compromise candidate by the new National Assembly of Iraq.

Al-Hasani is considered an outsider by many Sunnis, but he is a moderate Islamist. Immediately after his appointment, he named "security and a functioning economy" as the most important goals of the new Iraqi government .

In September 2007, al-Hasani left the ruling coalition of Allawi, which he accused of dictatorial behavior.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ UConn Grad In Iraqi Cabinet. Received Doctorate In Agricultural Economics (PDF; 42 kB) By GRACE E. MERRITT / Hartford Courant, June 4, 2004. (Food Marketing Policy Center Newsletter, University of Connecticut - June, 2004) ( Memento from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d Who's who in Iraq: Hajim al-Hassani BBC News, April 4, 2005
  3. ^ Interim Iraqi government BBC News Online, June 1, 2004
  4. ↑ Two lawmakers withdraw from the block headed by former premier Allawi By SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press September 20th, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Hasani, Hajjim al-
ALTERNATIVE NAMES حاجم الحسني, Ḥājim al-Ḥasanī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi Sunni and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirkuk