Baghdadi Mahmudi | |
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Prime Minister of Libya | |
In office 5 March 2006 – 23 August 2011 | |
Leader | Muammar Gaddafi |
Preceded by | Shukri Ghanem |
Succeeded by | Mahmoud Jibril (as Chairman of the Executive Office of the National Transitional Council |
Personal details | |
Born | Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi البغدادي علي المحمودي 1945 (age 78–79) Zawiya, British Tripolitania (now Libya) |
Baghdadi Ali Mahmudi (Arabic: البغدادي علي المحمودي) (born 1945) is a Libyan politician who was Secretary of the General People's Committee (prime minister) of Libya from 5 March 2006 to as late as 1 September 2011, when he acknowledged the collapse of the GPCO and the ascendance of the National Transitional Council as a result of the Libyan Civil War.[1] He has a medical degree,[1] specialising in obstetrics and gynecology, and had served as Deputy Prime Minister to Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem since 2003 at the time he was appointed to replace him. He was a part of Gaddafi's inner circle at least prior to his escape in mid-2011.[2] He was arrested in Tunisia for illegal border entry and jailed for six months,[3] although this was later overruled on appeal, however a Tunisian court decided to extradite Mahmoudi to Libya under a request from Libya's Transitional Council.
Mahmudi was released from prison on 20 July 2019.[4]