Osama al-Nujaifi

Osama al-Nujaifi
أسامة النجيفي
Al-Nujaifi in 2011
Vice President of Iraq[2][3]
In office
10 October 2016[1] – 2 October 2018
Serving with Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi
PresidentFuad Masum
Preceded byHimself
Succeeded byVacant
In office
9 September 2014 – 11 August 2015
Serving with Nouri al-Maliki and Ayad Allawi
PresidentFuad Masum
Preceded byKhodair al-Khozaei
Succeeded byHimself
Speaker of the Council of Representatives
In office
11 November 2010 – 15 July 2014
Prime MinisterNouri al-Maliki
Preceded byFuad Masum (Acting)
Succeeded bySalim al-Jabouri
Minister of Industry
In office
3 May 2005 – 20 May 2006
Prime MinisterIbrahim al-Jaafari
Preceded byHajim al-Hassani (Interim)
Succeeded byFawzi Hariri
Personal details
Born
Usama Abdu'l Aziz al-Nujayfi

1956 (age 67–68)
Mosul, Iraq
Political partyal-Hadba (in the Muttahidoon coalition)
RelationsAtheel al-Nujaifi (Brother)
ResidenceBaghdad, Iraq
ProfessionEngineer, politician

Osama Abdul Aziz al-Nujaifi[4] (Arabic: أسامة النجيفي; born c. 1956) is an Iraqi politician and served as one of the three vice presidents of the country, from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. As the speaker of the Council of Representatives, the informal leader of the moderate Sunni al-Hadba party was the highest ranking Sunni politician of Iraq.

An engineer by profession, al-Nujaifi served as Minister of Industry in the 2005–06 Iraqi Transitional Government. He later won the 2010 parliamentary election and was elected the Speaker of the Council of Representatives. During this time, he built up a reputation as prime minister al-Maliki staunchest adversary, whom as a Sunni he could defy but not challenge. After leaving offices together with al-Maliki in 2014, he was rewarded the ceremonial post of a Vice President of Iraq, which he held until 2015. The positions of all three Vice Presidents was restored in October 2016.

  1. ^ "Iraqi court nullifies Abadi's earlier decision to sack 3 vice president posts". Xinhua. 11 October 2016. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Will Mosul witness a political battle post-IS?". Al-Monitor. 18 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Iraq cuts off support for PKK, vice president says". TRT World. 13 February 2017.
  4. ^ According to political ballot in 2010 his name was listed as "Usama Abdulaziz Mohammad Abdulaziz."