Ahmed Abdullah Abid Khalaf al-Jubouri ('Abu Mazin') ( ar, أحمد عبد الله عبد خلف الجبوري) (born ~1968) is an Iraqi politician from

Salah ad-Din governorate The Saladin or Salah Al-Din Governorate ( ar, محافظة صلاح الدين) is one of Iraq's 19 governorates, north of Baghdad. It has an area of , with an estimated population of 1,042,200 people in 2003. It is made up of 8 districts, with t ...

, and a prominent figure in the

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area. He was the Minister of State for Provincial Affairs from 2014 to 2015 and the governor of

from 2013 to 2014.

Political career

Jubouri was the Salah ad-Din governor's Assistant for Security Affairs from 2005. In the 2009 governorate elections he stood for the

Iraqi National List The Iraqi National List ( ar, القائمة العراقية الوطنية) was a coalition of Iraqi political parties who ran in the December 2005 Iraqi elections and got 8.0% of the vote and 25 out of 275 seats. History Prior to the December ...

and received more votes than any other candidate. In a deal between the INL and the

Iraqi Accord Front The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front (Arabic: جبهة التوافق العراقية ''Jabhet Al-Tawafuq Al-'Iraqiyah'') also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Pa ...

, Jubouri was appointed the provincial chairman. Jubouri had a bitter political rivalry with ex-Deputy Governor Abdullah Hussein Jebara. As part of this rivalry Jubouri played a role in the attempts to prevent Jebara from standing for election on de-Ba'athification grounds.

Governorship

Jubouri's political party, the Iraqi People’s Coalition, received the largest share of the votes in the 2013 Saladin governorate election. Jubouri subsequently became the governor of Saladin governorate. Jubouri survived an assassination attempt on 18 December 2012. Jubouri had been travelling in the Tikrit area in a car with Qotaiba Jubouri, an MP and the Head of

Iraqiya Hurra The Iraqi National Movement (INM) (Arabic: الحركة الوطنية العراقية ''al-Ḥaraka al-Waṭaniya al-Iraqiyya''), more commonly known as the al-Iraqiya List, was an Iraqi political coalition formed to contest the 2010 parliament ...

coalition, as part of an inspection of the various districts and villages of Saladin province. When travelling near the village of Albo-Ajeil village a car bomb went off. Both men survived. In December 2013 Juburi was suspended by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for at least two months while allegations of corruption were investigated.

National politics

In the April 2014 elections, he headed the

Al-Arabiya Coalition The Al-Arabiya Coalition ( ar, إئتلاف العربية''I'tilāf alarabiya'') also known as Arabic Coalition is an Iraqi political coalition formed for the 2014 Iraqi parliamentary election by then-Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq Saleh al-Mutlaq ...

list in Salah ad-Din, which won the highest number of votes in the province. In August 2014 he took a seat in the

Council of Representatives of Iraq The Council of Representatives ( ar, مجلس النواب, Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ku, ئه‌نجومه‌نی نوێنه‌ران, ''Enjumen-e Nûnerên''), usually referred to simply as the Parliament is the unicameral legislature o ...

and resigned as governor. He was appointed Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, a post in the cabinet of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on 8 September 2014. In August 2015, in response to protests against government corruption and inefficiency, the Prime Minister abolished 11 cabinet posts, including the Ministry for Provincial Affairs. After his removal it was revealed that the Integrity Commission had issued a travel ban against him; he had been twice convicted of car theft, in 1985 and 1992 (which should have made him ineligible as an MP), and the qualification he had declared from a religious institution in Salah ad-Din was not equivalent to a university degree, and therefore he was not eligible to be a minister.

References

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