Abdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah ( Pashtun or Persian: عبدالله عبدالله, DMG ʿ ʿ Abdullāh Abdullāh; born September 5, 1960 in Kabul ) is an Afghan politician and friend of the murdered anti-Taliban leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. He was from 1999 to 2001 Minister of Foreign Affairs of the internationally recognized Islamic State of Afghanistan ( who fought against the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban ) and from 2001 to 2006 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan in the Karzai government. In the 2009 presidential election Abdullah stepped up to be the most promising candidate of the opposition, but abandoned in the face of serious electoral manipulations Karzai in the first round to a runoff against incumbent Hamid Karzai. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC ) of the United Nations found that had come in the 2009 elections, 1.3 million votes through fraud about, and about 1 million of them belonged to Karzai. As a result, Abdullah founded the " Coalition for Change and Hope", which won the parliamentary elections in 2010 90 out of 249 seats in the Afghan parliament. The Coalition for Change and Hope was increased in late 2011 and renamed " National Coalition of Afghanistan ".
Biography
Abdullah was born in the capital Kabul. His father, a Pashtun, Ghulam Muhayuddin Abdullah was a senator and officer of Kandahar, son of a former tribal leader of the Alokozai from Kandahar, his mother was from Shamali ( Panjshir ) .. Some threw Abdullah Abdullah in the last presidential elections that he in relation to their ethnic background as too politicized to score the Pashtun people.
As a young man Abdullah studied medicine specializing in ophthalmology at Kabul University, and a doctorate in 1983. He worked until 1985 as an ophthalmologist in Kabul, after he treated Afghan refugees in refugee camps in Pakistan. There he came up with the anti-Soviet resistance in contact. From that point on, Abdullah worked in Afghanistan Panjshir Valley as a doctor and health expert. There he became a close friend of Ahmad Shah Massoud.
In the 1990s, Abdullah was the official spokesman for the in 1992, the Peshawar Accords established and internationally recognized Afghan government. 1996 took over the Taliban to power in Kabul. Abdullah Ahmad Shah Massoud withdrew with in the northern regions of Afghanistan back. In 1997 he was appointed Deputy Foreign Minister. Two years later he became the foreign minister of the government, which was still regarded internationally as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
After the 2004 presidential election, in which Hamid Karzai was elected as the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan, Abdullah was foreign minister. However, he fell out with Karzai and lost after a cabinet reshuffle in 2006 his office to the foreign policy adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta.
Abdullah speaks fluent English and French. He is the father of a son and three daughters.
2009 presidential election
In the Afghan presidential election in August 2009 Abdullah ran against Hamid Karzai and was regarded as one of the favorites. With the vote count, however, there were increasing allegations of international observers that massive election fraud had been operated. A complaint to Commission identified several weeks before this mid-October announced that hundreds of thousands of votes were invalid. This incumbent Karzai lost the absolute majority and there was a runoff between him and Abdullah agreed on November 7, 2009.
End of October 2009, barely a week before the election, Abdullah threatened to withdraw according to media reports from the runoff. This followed failed talks with Karzai. Abdullah had, among other things, the removal of the chairman of the controversial Electoral Commission ( IEC ) is required to have a permit " free and fair " runoff. Six days before the scheduled runoff election he announced his boycott of the vote. The Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC ) of the United Nations found that had come in the 2009 elections, 1.3 million votes through fraud about, and about 1 million of them belonged to Karzai. Wanted to move as his supporters on the streets, Abdullah Abdullah held them back so as not to endanger the fragile stability of Afghanistan.
National Coalition of Afghanistan
After the presidential election in 2009 founded the Coalition for Change and Abdullah Hope, which won the parliamentary elections in 2010 90 out of 249 seats in the Afghan parliament. The Coalition for Change and Hope was increased in late 2011 and renamed the National Coalition of Afghanistan. The National Coalition represents similar political content, such as the National Front, under the chairmanship of Ahmad Zia Massoud and the National Movement of the former Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh. He is a candidate for the presidential election of 2014.