Iraqi Interim Government
The Iraqi Transitional Government was officially created on 28 June 2004, with the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, Paul Bremer. On 28 May and 1 June 2004, the Iraqi Governing Council, the UN special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer agreed about the state presidency and the interim government that took power in Iraq on 28 June:
- President: Ghazi al - Yawar ( Sunni )
- Vice - President: Ibrahim al - Jaafari ( Shiite )
- Vice - President: Rodsch Nuri Schawais ( Kurd )
- Prime Minister: Iyad Allawi ( Shiite )
- Deputy Prime Minister: Barham Salih ( Kurd )
The list of ministers includes 28 ministers, including:
- Foreign: Hoshyar Zebari ( Kurd )
- Crude Oil: Thamir Abbas Ghadban
- Interior: Falah Hasan at - Naqib
- Finance: Adil Abd al -Mahdi
- Planning: Mahdi al - Hafiz
In addition, there were three ministers without portfolio. You about representing the ethnic representation between Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Ten ministers already belonged to the last cabinet, five are women, six were in the previous term of office. Most ministers were members of the previous Government, which is now dissolved.
On 6 June 2004, the transitional government and the U.S. agreed on their military cooperation, a temporary stay of foreign troops, and prepared the way for the new Iraq Resolution No. 1546, which was decided by the UN Security Council on 8 June unanimously.
These decisions, however, came not "political life " a. The extremists perpetrated yet on June 1, assassinations, and the new ministers had little time for political profiling. They had in an unstable situation and without adequate documentation, the elections for December ( or at the latest January 2005) to prepare. In July, they stood before a vote of confidence in front of a 60 -member National Assembly. This was established by the UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi in countless contacts with political and religious groups according to the pattern of the Afghan Loya Jirga.
The transitional government ruled until early 2005. On 30 January 2005, the first free elections were held in Iraq since Saddam Hussein, and in May 2005, the new Iraqi government was sworn.