Rashad al-Alimi
Yemeni politician (born 1954)
Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi
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رشاد محمد العليمي
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Al-Alimi in 2023
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Chairman
of the
Presidential
Leadership Council of Yemen |
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Assumed office
7 April 2022 Disputed by Mahdi al-Mashat ( Supreme Political Council ) |
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Prime Minister | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed |
Vice President |
Aidarus al-Zoubaidi
Tareq Saleh Sultan Ali al-Arada Abdullah al-Alimi Bawazeer |
Preceded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (as President of Yemen ) |
Adviser to the President of Yemen | |
In office
2014 [1] – 7 April 2022 |
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President | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
Member of the General Committee of the General People's Congress | |
Assumed office
2011 [1] |
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Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen | |
In office
2006–2011 [1] |
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President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Prime Minister |
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
Interior Minister of Yemen | |
In office
4 April 2001 – 18 May 2008 |
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President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Prime Minister |
Abdul Qadir Bajamal
Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
Preceded by | Hussein Arab |
Succeeded by | Mutaher al-Masri |
Personal details | |
Born |
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1954-01-15
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January 15, 1954
(age
69)
Al-Aloom, Taiz Governorate , North Yemen |
Political party | General People's Congress |
Website |
presidentalalimi
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Nickname | Alimi |
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Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi ( Arabic : رشاد محمد العليمي ; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician currently serving as the chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022. [2]
Biography
Rashad al-Alimi was born on January 15, 1954, [1] in Al-Aloom, a village in the Taiz Governorate , [2] and is the son of judge Mohammed ben Ali al-Alimi. He graduated from Gamal Abdel Nasser High School in Sanaa in 1969. [3] He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in military science from the Kuwait Police College in 1975, and another university degree in arts from the University of Sanaa in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988. [4]
A member of the General People's Congress , he was Minister of the Interior from 4 April 2001 to 2008. [3] [5] [1] He then became Chairman of the Supreme Security Committee and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Defense and Security Affairs in May 2008, subsequently becoming a member of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference, then adviser to President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2014. [4]
On 3 June 2011, during the Battle of Sanaa , al-Alimi was wounded along with Ali Abdullah Saleh during an attack on the Al-Nahdin Mosque in the Presidential Palace . [6] He was subsequently transferred to Saudi Arabia and to Germany for treatment, before returning to Sanaa on 13 June 2012. He left the city again as a result of the Houthi takeover in Yemen [2] and began living in Saudi Arabia in 2015. [7]
Al-Alimi became Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, a body given the powers of the President of Yemen , on 7 April 2022, through a decree by President Hadi, who irreversibly transferred his powers to the council. Multiple sources in the Yemeni and Saudi governments stated that Saudi Arabia , where Hadi was living, forced him to cede power to Alimi. [8] [9] [10]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography" . Official Website of Rashad al-Alimi (in Arabic) . Retrieved 11 February 2023 .
- 1 2 3 "Who is the new President of the Presidential Council in Yemen?" . Middle East 24 News English . 7 April 2022 . Retrieved 10 April 2022 .
- 1 2 "من هو رشاد العليمي .. رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي المخول بصلاحيات الرئيس هادي (سيرة ذاتية )" . ye-now.net (in Arabic). 7 April 2022 . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- 1 2 "رشاد العليمي.. تعرّف إلى رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي في اليمن" . mubasher.aljazeera.net (in Arabic) . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- ↑ "April 2001" . www.rulers.org . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- ↑ "Yémen : le président Saleh blessé, son armée riposte" . leparisien.fr (in French). 3 June 2011 . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- ↑ "Saudi Arabia shakes up Yemen alliance in bid to exit quagmire" . Middle East Monitor . 7 April 2022 . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- ↑ magazine, Le Point (7 April 2022). "Yémen: le président en exil transfère le pouvoir à un nouveau conseil" . Le Point (in French) . Retrieved 9 April 2022 .
- ↑ Said, Summer; Kalin, Stephen (17 April 2022). "Saudi Arabia Pushed Yemen's Elected President to Step Aside, Saudi and Yemeni Officials Say" . The Wall Street Journal . Riyadh, Saudi Arabia . Retrieved 11 February 2023 .
- ↑ "Saudi Arabia forced Yemen's president to resign, says report" . Middle East Eye . Washington, D.C. 18 April 2022.
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Interior Minister of Yemen
2001–2008 |
Succeeded by |
Preceded by as President of Yemen |
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DISPUTED
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Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen 2022–present Disputed by Mahdi al-Mashat ( Supreme Political Council ) Reason for dispute: Yemeni Civil War (2014–present) |
Incumbent |
North Yemen
(1918–1990) |
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South Yemen
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Republic of Yemen
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