Najeeb Qahtan al-Shaabi (born 1953 in
Sha'ab,
Lahj
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,
Yemen
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– died 24 May 2021 in
Aden, Yemen) was a Yemeni politician who was a candidate in the
1999 presidential election in Yemen. He ran as an Independent, despite being a member of the
General People's Congress, against President
Ali Abdullah Saleh
Ali Abdullah Saleh al-Ahmar (, ''ʿAlī ʿAbdullāh Ṣāliḥ al-Aḥmar;'' 21 March 1947There is a dispute as to Saleh's date of birth, some saying that it was on 21 March 1942. See: However, by Saleh's own confession, he was born in 1947 al ...
.
He received 3.8% of the vote.
He served as a member of the
House of Representatives
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from 1991 till his death 2021.
He was the son of
Qahtan Muhammad al-Shaabi, the first president of
South Yemen.
On 24 May 2021, Najeeb died of
COVID-19
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in
Aden, Yemen during the
COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen.
References
1953 births
2021 deaths
General People's Congress (Yemen) politicians
Sons of national leaders
People from Lahij Governorate
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Yemen
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