His Excellency
Rashad Mohammed al-Alimi
رشاد محمد العليمي
Al-Alimi in 2023
Chairman of the Presidential
Leadership Council of Yemen
Assumed office
7 April 2022
Disputed by Mahdi al-Mashat (Supreme Political Council)
Prime MinisterMaeen Abdulmalik Saeed
Vice PresidentAidarus al-Zoubaidi
Tareq Saleh
Sultan Ali al-Arada
Abdullah al-Alimi Bawazeer
Preceded byAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (as President of Yemen)
Adviser to the President of Yemen
In office
2014[1] – 7 April 2022
PresidentAbdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
Member of the General Committee of the General People's Congress
Assumed office
2011[1]
Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen
In office
2006–2011[1]
PresidentAli Abdullah Saleh
Prime MinisterAbdul Qadir Bajamal
Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Interior Minister of Yemen
In office
4 April 2001 – 18 May 2008
PresidentAli Abdullah Saleh
Prime MinisterAbdul Qadir Bajamal
Ali Muhammad Mujawar
Preceded byHussein Arab
Succeeded byMutaher al-Masri
Personal details
Born (1954-01-15) January 15, 1954
Al-Aloom, Taiz Governorate, North Yemen
Political partyGeneral People's Congress
Alma materSanaa University
Ain Shams University
Websitewww.presidentalalimi.net
Nickname"Alimi"
Military service
Allegiance Yemen
Branch/service Yemeni Armed Forces
Years of service1978–present
Battles/warsYemeni Civil War
1994 civil war in Yemen

Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (Arabic: رشاد محمد العليمي, romanized: Rashād Muḥammad al-ʻUlaymī; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician currently serving as the chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022.[2]

Early life and education

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 Sanaa University in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988.[4]

Career

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. 1 2 3 4 5 "Biography". Official Website of Rashad al-Alimi (in Arabic). Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 1 2 "رشاد العليمي.. تعرّف إلى رئيس مجلس القيادة الرئاسي في اليمن". mubasher.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "April 2001". www.rulers.org. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "Yémen : le président Saleh blessé, son armée riposte". leparisien.fr (in French). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "Saudi Arabia shakes up Yemen alliance in bid to exit quagmire". Middle East Monitor. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ "Saudi Arabia forced Yemen's president to resign, says report". Middle East Eye. Washington, D.C. 18 April 2022.
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