Azem Alliance

	Azem Alliance The Azem Alliance is a political party in Iraq. It is headed by the Sunni businessman Khamis al-Khanjar and includes prominent Sunni figures, such as former parliament speakers Mahmoud al-Mashhadani and Salim al-Jabouri Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri (Arabic: سليم عبدالله الجبوري) (born 12 August 1971) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014 until 1 July 2018. Al-Jabouri now holds the position o ..., and former defence minister Khaled al-Obaidi. Electoral results They won 12 seats in the 2021 parliamentary election. References {{Iraqi political parties Political parties in Iraq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Khamis Al-Khanjar Khamis ar, خميس the 5th day in Arabic known as Thursday. It may refer to: * Khamis (name) Khamis, Bahrain, a place in Bahrain Khamis Brigade, special forces brigade of the military of Libya Khamis Mushait Khamis Mushayt or Khamis Mushait ( ar, خميس مشيط, ') is a city in south-west Saudi Arabia, located east of Abha, the provincial seat of the 'Asir Province, 650 nautical miles from Dhahran and from the national capital of Riyadh. It is t ... , a city in Saudi Arabia {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani Dr. Mahmoud Dawud al-Mashhadani ( ar, محمود المشهداني) is an Iraqi politician and a former Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives. He was elected to the Council of Representatives as part of the Sunni Arab-led Iraqi Accord Front list. Personal life Born in 1948 in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad, he went to school in al-Khadhimiyah and graduated from Baghdad Medical College in 1972. He joined the medical corps of the Iraqi Army as a Lieutenant and rose to the rank of Army Major. He was imprisoned for opposing the Gulf War in 1990 and sentenced to death, which was commuted to 15 years after payment of bribes. He was a founding member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Council. Deeply religious, Dr. al-Mashhadani is a Salafi Muslim. Salafis believe that Islam became corrupted after the death of the first three generations of Muslims from the time of the Prophet, and any practices that postdate that time are viewed as heretical. They are most closely associat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Salim Al-Jabouri Salim Abdullah al-Jabouri (Arabic: سليم عبدالله الجبوري) (born 12 August 1971) is an Iraqi politician who was elected as the Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament on 15 July 2014 until 1 July 2018. Al-Jabouri now holds the position of president of Iraqi Parliament starting from 2014. Al-Jabouri is a Sunni Arab from Muqdadiya, Diyala Governorate who obtained a doctorate in law in 2001. He worked as a law professor at Nahrain University in Baghdad. He was originally a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party. He was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in December 2005 for the Iraqi Accord Front list and he became deputy head of parliament's legal committee. Two of his brothers, Fuad and Ahmed al-Jabouri, were killed in an attack in 2007 in Muqdadiya. He stood in Diyala in the March 2010 general election but the Iraqi Accord Front failed to have any MPs elected from that province. However, he defected to the Iraqiya list and was nominated to parliament in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Khaled Al-Obaidi Khaled Yassin al-Obaidi (born 1959) is an Iraqi politician who served as the defense minister of Iraq from 2014 to 2016. Background Khalid Yassin al-Obaidi is a Sunni Muslim who was born in Mosul. He belongs to the al-Obaidi Sunni tribal confederation. al-Obaidi is a member of the Iraqi parliament's Itihad al-Quwa al-Wataniyah bloc. He holds two master's degree in engineering and military science as well as a doctorate in political science. He served in the Iraqi Air Force, specialising in engineering aircraft engines until 2003 when he was appointed as a university professor by the Ministry of Higher Education. He was appointed as the Technical Education Authority by the Ministry of Education in 2007 and has also served as a security advisor for the President of the Parliament. He was nominated for the post of Defense Minister and accepted by the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in 2010 but was rejected by Ayad Allawi, the Iraqi National List founder. He was also a major general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2021 Iraqi Parliamentary Election Parliamentary elections were held in Iraq on 10 October 2021. The elections decide the 329 members of the Council of Representatives who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and confirm the prime minister. 25 million voters are eligible to take part in Iraq's fifth parliamentary election since the 2003 US-led invasion and the first since the 2019 Iraqi October Revolution. The election result led to the 2021 Baghdad clashes. Background The elections were originally due to be held in 2022 but were brought forward to June 2021 due to the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests. They were delayed until October as the Independent High Electoral Commission asked for more time to organize "free and fair elections", which the cabinet of Iraq approved on 19 January 2021. Electoral system The electoral system was changed following the last parliamentary elections amid the 2019–2021 Iraqi protests. Previously conducted under proportional representation calculated using the Webster/Sainte-Lag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]