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| Affiliation | Islamic Dawa Party |
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| Name | Ibrahim al-Jaafari |
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March 25, 1947
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Ben |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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| Info | a Shiite, is the new Prime Minister of Iraq following the elections (Iraqi legislative election, 2005) of January 30th 2005. He was previously one of the two interim vice-presidents of Iraq, and the main spokesman for the Islamic Dawa Party in Iraq.
He was born Ibrahim Al-Ashaiqer in Karbala and was educated at Mosul university as a medical doctor. He joined the Islamic Dawa Party in 1968. Upon graduation from school in 1974 he worked actively for the party in Iraq until the Ba'athist government began a violent crackdown on the group. He left for Iran in 1980 and became involved in the anti-Saddam movement there. He moved to London in 1989 where he became the al-Dawa spokesman in that country and an important participant in the wider anti-Saddam movement. His five children remain in Britain.
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq he quickly returned to the country. He was picked in July 2003 as member of the U.S.-backed Iraq Interim Governing Council, and served as its first chairman and Iraq's first post-Saddam interim president for one month. On June 1, 2004, he was selected to be one of the two vice-presidents in the new Iraqi government.
He brought al-Dawa into the United Iraqi Alliance coalition of Shi'ite parties and was second on the party's list after SCIRI leader Abdel-Aziz Hakim. He is brother-in-law of the Shia Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani who backed the UAI.
Following the 2005 Iraqi elections the strength of the UIA in the parliament made him a likely candidate to become the nation's new Prime Minister. Only Ahmed Chalabi challenged him for the position. Chalabi later dropped out of the race, allowing al-Jaafari to become the alliance's candidate for the post.
In opinion polls since the invasion, al-Jafaari has fairly consistently had the highest approval ratings of any politician, and the highest of any public figure after Sistani and Moqtada al-Sadr, and al-Dawa has been the by far most popular political party.
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