Two days after the announcement of the organization of the elections in Iraq, the Iraqi parliament elected former water resources Minister Abdul Lateef Rasheed as the country’s new President on Thursday, the 13th of October.
Iraq’s parliament elected former water resources minister Abdul Lateef Rasheed as the country’s new presidenthttps://t.co/QX3jVXTVfV pic.twitter.com/HsKWCOXYWs
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Abdul Lateef Rasheed started his political life in the sixties of the last century by joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party and becoming an active member. He was the party’s representative in Britain and several European countries, studying civil engineering there.
He became active in the opposition conferences that overthrew the regime of former President Saddam Hussein in 2003 and entered the political arena, where he maintained a robust and friendly relationship with the poles of the Iraqi opposition abroad.
After 2003, he was chosen to be in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq. He continued to hold this position until 2010, when he was appointed as a senior advisor to the President of the Republic. At all political stages, he was close to the founder of the Kurdistan National Union Party, the late President Jalal Talabani, due to their joint political work.
This election came after one year of the voting that took place on October 2021, following the failure of Muqtada Sadr to create a coalition in the parliament. During all those months, Iraq was a buffer zone because of the protests demanding a new government to lead the country far from the previous one and its failures.