Haider Al-Abadi

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Haider Jawad Kadhim al-Abadi (born 25 April 1952) is an Iraqi-British politician who was Prime Minister of Iraq from September 2014 until October 2018.

Previously he served as Minister of Communication from 2003 to 2004, in the first government after Saddam Hussein was deposed. He was designated as Prime Minister by President Fuad Masum on 11 August 2014 to succeed Nouri al-Maliki and was approved by the Iraqi parliament on 8 September 2014.

Early life and education

Al-Abadi's father was a member of the Baghdad Neurosurgery Hospital and Inspector General of the Iraqi Ministry of Health. He was forced to retire in 1979 due to disagreements with the Ba'athist regime, and was buried in the US after his death. Al-Abadi, who speaks English, graduated high school in 1970 from the Central High School (Arabic: الإعدادية المركزية) in Bagdad. In 1975, he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology in Baghdad. In 1980, he earned a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester.

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Career

In 1967, Al-Abadi joined the Dawa Party. Two of his brothers were killed, and one was arrested in 1980, 1981, and 1982 for being members of the Dawa Party. In 1981, his third brother was arrested and sentenced to ten years in jail. In 1977, he took over the company's management in the United Kingdom. In 1979, he became a member of the party's executive committee. The government confiscated al-Abadi's passport in 1983 for plotting against Iraq's Ba'ath Party.

His positions during this time included:

In 1998, Al-Abadi was granted a grant by the UK Department of Trade and Industry. al-Abadi obtained a patent relating to fast transit services while living in London in 2001.

al-Abadi became skeptical of the Coalition Provisional Authority's privatization initiative in 2003, telling Paul Bremer that they had to wait for a legitimate government to be established. The state-owned businesses and infrastructure in October 2003, as the CPA's call to privatize the state-owned enterprises and infrastructure prior to establishing a legitimate government in al-Abadi. With al-Abadi and the Governing Council, the CPA, led by Bremer, lost out. The CPA worked around the governing Council, emerging a new government that remained loyal to the CPA until the general elections, sparking more brutal armed action by rebels against US-led coalition forces.

Although al-Abadi was Minister of Communications, the CPA granted licenses to three mobile operators to cover all regions of Iraq. Despite being rendered almost powerless by the CPA, Al-Abadi was not prepared to be a rubber stamp and had to introduce new licenses. One of the reasons was that a sovereign Iraqi government has the ability to modify or withdraw licenses and issue a fourth national license, which caused some confusion with the CPA. According to newspaper reports, Iraqi officials were under scrutiny because of an unethical agreement involving Orascom, an Egypt-based telecoms firm, which was granted a contract to provide a mobile network to central Iraq in late 2003. There was no illicit dealing in the final awards, according to Al-Abadi. These allegations were fabrications, according to a US Defense Department report, telecommunications contracting had been unlawfully influenced in an unsuccessful attempt led by disgraced US Undersecretary of Defense John A. Shaw, not by Iraqis.

He served as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq's first elected government between January and December 2005.

He was elected as a member of the Iraqi Parliament in December 2005 and chaired the parliamentary committee on Economy, Finance, and Reconstruction. Al-Abadi was re-elected in 2010 as a member of the Iraqi Parliament, representing Baghdad. In 2013, he chaired the Finance Committee and was at the forefront of a parliamentary debate over the allocation of the 2013 Iraqi budget.

During the formation of the Iraqi government in 2006, Al-Abadi's name was widely distributed as a prime minister, although Nouri al-Maliki was deposed as Prime Minister at the time.

Al-Abadi maintained his support for Iraqi sovereignty in 2008, insisting on concrete terms to the deal with the United States concerning its presence in Iraq.

The Middle East Economic Digest named al-Abadi as a key figure to watch in Iraq's reconstruction in 2009.

He is a member of the Iraq Petroleum Advisory Committee, and he was an active participant in the 2009-2012 Iraq Petroleum Conferences, which were hosted by Nawar Abdulhadi and Phillip Clarke of The CWC Group.

As a result of the dismissal of criminal charges against Blackwater workers involved in the 2007 massacre of 17 Iraqi civilians, he was one of many Iraqi politicians opposing a lawsuit against Blackwater.

After the 2010 elections to select a replacement for incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Al-Abadi was recalled as a potential Prime Minister amid the tough talks between Iraqi political blocs. He was nominated by Shia political parties as an alternative Prime Minister in 2014.

Fuad Masum assumed office as Iraq's new president on July 24. On August 11, he nominated al-Abadi for prime minister, who ruled in turn. al-Abadi was supposed to establish a cabinet for the appointment to go into place by Parliament within 30 days. Al-Maliki, on the other hand, refused to resign his position and referred the matter to a federal court, who found that the president's appointment was a "constitutional infringement." "The insistence on this until the end is to shield the state," he said. The troubled prime minister announced on August 14 that he would resign to make way for al-Abadi, despite increasing calls from world leaders and members of his own party. Since many Iraqi Sunni Arabs were concerned that the new government would address their concerns and provide public goods and services to them, the announcement of the leadership shift from al-Maliki to al-Abadi prompted a significant shift in Sunni Arab public opinion away from militant opposition groups and into the Iraqi government.

On September 8, 2014, the Iraqi Parliament approved al-Abadi's new government and his presidential program. Abadi's in the months following his takeover of office in September 2014, the Iraqi government continued to grow Sunni participation. Khaled al-Obaidi, a well-known Sunni politician from Mosul, was appointed as the Defense Minister by Abadi's parliament, but after two months, the appointment was confirmed by the Iraqi parliament. Abadi forged a new revenue-sharing deal with the Kurds in mid-December 2014, under which Baghdad promised to pay the Kurdish Regional Government one-half of all income from Kurdish-controlled oil fields. Abadi reported that 50,000 "ghost soldiers" had been identified and would be suspended from army payrolls to combat widespread corruption in the army stemming from the Maliki years. Men on army payrolls who never turned up for service, but their officers were paid part of their salaries, effectively institutionalizing injustice and hollowing out the armed forces.

In November 2014, Iraqi President Fuad Masum paid a goodwill visit to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is poised to reopen its embassy in Baghdad, which had been closed since the Gulf War began in 1990. Abadi has also visited Egypt, Jordan, and Turkey to explore regional strategies to combat jihadist Islamist forces. According to Foreign Affairs magazine, Abadi's attempts to address Iraq's sectarian strife make his premiership "a welcome change from his predecessor's schismatic style." The US has promised $1.5 billion to prepare Iraqi forces as a result of Abadi's reforms and announced the production of F-16 fighter jets, which was suspended following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The al-Abadi government's first concern was combating political injustice. al-Abadi unveiled a scheme to improve the government in August 2015, which included, removing security details from senior executives and limiting benefits to specific high-level employees.

Al-Abadi was forced to face the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant as Prime Minister; he was often critical of Barack Obama and the US military response to the ISIL threat in Iraq and Levant; In addition, al-Abadi moved closer to Russia and Iran in order to counter the threat of ISIL and increased cooperation among these countries on military operations in the region.

al-Abadi's failure in implementing political reforms in April 2016 triggered the uprising of the Iraqi parliament by supporters of Shia cleric Muqtadr. Protesters who broke the Green Zone and disrupted parliament have been portrayed as a result of Iraq's increasingly dysfunctional political system and al-Abadi's struggles to bring corruption under control.

Prime Minister Al-Abadi declared victory over ISIL and the end of the Iraqi Civil War on December 9, 2017. (2014-2017)

Adil Abdul-Mahdi took over Abadi on October 25, 2018.

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