Everything about Adel Abdul Mehdi totally explained
Adil (Adel) Abdul-Mahdi (al Muntafiki) (
Arabic: عادل عبد المهدى ) (born
1942 in
Baghdad,
Iraq) is an
Iraqi Shi'a politician,
economist, and is one of the two current
Vice Presidents of Iraq. He was formerly the
Finance Minister in the
Interim government.
Abdel-Mahdi is a member of the powerful Shi'a party the
Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC. Long based in neighboring
Iran, the group opposed a
United States administration but holds close ties with the other U.S.-backed groups that opposed
Saddam Hussein, including the
Kurds and the
Iraqi National Congress.
Background
He is a trained economist who left Iraq in 1969 for exile in
France. He worked for French
think tanks and edited magazines in French and Arabic. Adel Abdul Mahdi is also referred to as Adel Abd al'Mahdi, as well as other various derivations (this highlights the continual difficulties of transliteration from Arabic into English). Abdul-Mahdi was educated in
France, and is the son of a respected Shiite
cleric who was a
minister in Iraq's
monarchy. He attended high school at
Baghdad College, an elite American Jesuit secondary school.
Iraqi Politics
In 2006, Abdul-Mahdi, outgoing Vice President in the
transitional government, unsuccessfully ran for the
United Iraqi Alliance's nomination for Prime Minister against incumbent
Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He lost by one vote. He was reportedly considered to be a possibility for Prime Minister once again until
Nouri al-Maliki became the UIA nominee. Subsequently, Abdul-Mahdi was re-elected as
Vice President of Iraq. He exerted his limited authority in that role by delaying the first meeting of the National Assembly in March.
In December 2006, the Associated Press reported that Abdul-Mahdi could be the next Prime Minister of Iraq if a new multi-sectarian coalition succeeds in toppling the government of
Nouri al-Maliki.
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On
February 26, 2007, he survived an assassination attempt that killed ten people.
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