Ibrahim al-Jafari

Ibrahim al-Ja'fari

Ibrahim al-Jafari ( Arabic إبراهيم الجعفري, DMG Ibrahim al-Ǧa'farī , * 1947 in Karbala in Iraq ) is an Iraqi politician . From 2005 to 2006 he was Prime Minister of the Iraqi interim government.

Ibrahim al-Jafari was founded in 1947 as Ibrahim al-Aschaiqir ( Arabic إبراهيم الأشيقر, DMG Ibrāhīm al-Ašayqir ) was born in the Shiite pilgrimage town of Karbala . The name al-Jafari is a pseudonym that refers to Jafar ibn Muhammad , the sixth Shiite imam .

Life

Al-Jafari is a Shiite and trained as a doctor at the University of Mosul . He also conducted religious studies. He is the leader of the Shiite Islamic Party Dawa , which he joined in 1966 at the age of 19. The party, whose leadership was formerly Iran , led an armed campaign against Saddam Hussein's regime in the late 1970s , which was suppressed in 1982. Allegedly 77,000 people lost their lives in the fight. In 1980, al-Jafari fled into exile in Iran via Syria . From 1989 to April 2003 he lived with his family in London. There he was active as a spokesman for the Dawa party in Great Britain . After the Iraq war , al-Jafari returned to Iraq.

Al-Jafari was, as one of two vice-presidents, a member of the Iraqi Government Council , a temporary political body that was set up on July 13, 2003 by the American military administrator in Baghdad, Paul Bremer , and which resigned prematurely on June 1, 2004 by resolution of its members has dissolved. In the general election on January 30, 2005, al-Jafari took part as a candidate for the United Iraqi Alliance . The electoral alliance won an absolute majority in parliament with 140 of the 275 seats . Following the announcement of the results of the elections on January 30, 2005, the Shiite Alliance unanimously agreed on al-Jafari as the candidate for the office of future prime minister, after Ahmad Chalabi had previously given up his efforts to nominate him. On February 23, 2005, al-Jafari was officially nominated for office by his party.

The Kurdish politician Jalal Talabani , who was elected president of the country by the Iraqi parliament with 227 votes on April 6, 2005, tasked al-Jafari with forming a government. On April 27, a majority in the Iraqi transitional parliament voted for Ibrahim al-Jafari's cabinet. Al-Jafari also acted as defense minister for a few days in addition to the office of prime minister, until the Sunni Saadun ad-Dulaimi was subsequently nominated for the office.

On May 19, al-Jafari made his first foreign visit as Prime Minister of Iraq to Turkey . On oil, water and energy, Jafari said in Ankara that Iraq and Turkey have "a common destiny and partnership of interests" . The main focus of his visit was probably on these issues and the Iraqi debt of 1.7 billion US dollars with Turkey.

He was followed in 2006 by his fellow party member Nuri al-Maliki . In May 2008 he founded the Reform Party (Islah) and was subsequently expelled from the Dawa Party. In the parliamentary elections in 2010 , his party joined the Iraqi National Alliance.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rory Carroll: The man to heal Iraq. February 24, 2005, accessed November 26, 2018 .