Salam Fayyad

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Salam Fayyad (2009)

Salam Fayyad ( Arabic سلام فياض, DMG Salām Fayyāḍ , also Faiyad ; * April 1952 in Dair al-Ghussun) is a Palestinian economist and politician (party of the “ Third Way ”). He was Prime Minister of the Palestinian Territories from 2007 to 2013 . He was previously Finance Minister from 2002 to 2005 and again from March 2007 .

Life

Fayyad was born in 1952 in Dair al-Ghassun near Tulkarm in the West Bank , which was then annexed by Jordan . After completing his doctorate in economics in Austin , Texas, he first worked as a lecturer at Yarmuk University in Jordan . He also received an engineering degree from the American University in Beirut . In 1987 he took up a position at the World Bank in Washington. From 1995 to 2001 he worked in Jerusalem as the resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Palestine and oversaw the financial reforms of the Palestinian Authority.

In 2002 he was appointed finance minister by the then ruling Fatah as an independent economist. Under his leadership, fundamental reforms of the financial system were initiated and important measures were taken in an anti-corruption campaign, for which he received international recognition. He resigned from office in 2005 and later founded the Third Way Party.

On March 18, 2007, he was appointed finance minister of the planned unity government made up of the rival Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas . On June 15, 2007, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced that he would appoint Salam Fayyad to lead an emergency government. He had previously declared the previous Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya to be dismissed against the background of the armed conflict between Fatah and Hamas.

On March 7, 2009, the Fayyad-led government resigned to pave the way for a unity government with the participation of Fatah and Hamas. President Mahmoud Abbas has asked Fayyad to remain in office during these negotiations. After five rounds of such Egypt- mediated negotiations failed, Abbas reassigned Fayyad to the post of prime minister on May 19.

On February 14, 2011, the Palestinian government headed by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned. This should make it possible to fill several ministerial posts. President Abbas had pushed for this step. Observers rated this as a reaction to the unrest and political upheaval in Egypt, among other things . Fayyad himself remained in office during the government reshuffle.

On May 16, 2012 a transitional cabinet consisting of experts close to Fatah was sworn in by Abbas. According to Abbass, it should take care of the administration until Hamas could be integrated into the government. Fayyad remained prime minister, but handed over the finance ministry, which he had been in charge of until then, to Nabil Kassis . When Abbas accepted Kassis 'resignation in March 2013, differences between the President and Prime Minister became known - Fayyad had spoken out against Kassis' resignation.

In April 2013 it was announced that Fayyad had submitted his resignation as prime minister to Mahmoud Abbas. The Fatah Revolutionary Council had previously publicly criticized Fayyad's administration for the first time. Fayyad is considered by many Palestinians to be friendly to the USA and Israel.

He is skeptical of the plan to unilaterally proclaim a Palestinian state. In order to achieve state sovereignty for the Palestinian people, he insists on first making this inevitable by consolidating civil society and the economy.

Under Fayyad's reforms, economic growth in the West Bank in 2009 reached 8.5%, almost the speed of China.

Private

Fayyad is Sunni, married and has three sons. He lives in East Jerusalem . Fayyad is also an American citizen.

Web links

Commons : Salam Fayyad  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbas appoints Fajad as head of emergency government , Spiegel Online . June 15, 2007. 
  2. ↑ Palestinian head of government resigns , Focus . March 7, 2009. 
  3. ↑ Palestinian Prime Minister Fajad announces resignation - Abbas against , Reuters. March 7, 2009. 
  4. ↑ Isabel Kershner: Palestinians reappoint Prime Minister Who Had Quit (English) , The New York Times . May 19, 2009. Retrieved February 14, 2010. 
  5. ↑ cf. Palestinian government has resigned ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at tagesschau.de, February 14, 2011. Accessed September 6, 2014
  6. ↑ a b Salam Fayyad . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/2012 from October 30, 2012 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  7. ↑ a b Palestine: Prime Minister submits resignation. In: fr-online.de . April 13, 2013, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  8. ↑ www.haaretz.com
  9. ↑ www.jpost.com
  10. ↑ Philip Faigle: Middle East: The Fragile Boom of the West Bank. In: zeit.de . September 1, 2010, accessed December 19, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Fayyad, salam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fajjad, Salam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian politician and economist
DATE OF BIRTH April 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Dair al-Ghussun