Mahdi Ahmed al-Hafez was Minister of Planning in the cabinet appointed by the

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in September 2003 and in the Iraqi Interim Government. A

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Muslim, al-Hafez was the Iraqi representative to the

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from 1978 to 1980; afterwards, he headed the Arab Economic Research Association in

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. He is associated with the Iraqi Independent Democrats. He was elected to the

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in the

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as part of the secular

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. In May 2007 he announced he was withdrawing from the list to sit as an independent. He died on October 2, 2017.The departure of Iraqi political and economic Mahdi al - Hafiz
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