Najib Mikati
Najib Miqati, Arabic نجيب ميقاتي, DMG Naǧīb Miqati, Mikati also transcribed, (born 24 November 1955 Tripoli ) is a Sunni politician and entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry. He was in 2005 and 2011 to 2014 Prime Minister of Lebanon. He is regarded as prosyrisch because he is a personal friend of the local President Bashar al -Assad.
Life
Miqati studied at the American University of Beirut Business Administration and graduated in 1980 with the Master from. With his brother he founded Investcom that the two extensions in the following years to a telecommunications company before they sold it in 2006 at a cost of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars to the South African MTN Group. Miqati is co-founder of the conglomerate M1 Group.
The political career Miqatis began in 1998 with the election of the deputies of the National Assembly for a constituency Tripoli. He later became Minister of Public Works and Transports. This office he maintained 1998 to 2004. Miqati On April 15, 2005 by President Émile Lahoud was appointed as successor to the retiring Prime Minister Omar Karami. His election by the National Assembly was considered a major defeat for the democracy movement in the country, which had been used across denominational against a continued Syrian influence in Lebanon. Served in this office Miqati up to his replacement on 30 June 2005 by Fouad Siniora, a longtime confidant of Rafiq al -Hariri, whose assassination had triggered in February 2005, the so-called " Cedar Revolution ".
In the election in 2009 Miqati was chosen as an ally of al - Hariri's re- enter parliament.
After 12 January 2011, the government had failed under Prime Minister Saad al -Hariri, because al -Hariri had refused to withdraw the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the support, it came to a government crisis. Druze leader Walid Jumblatt slapped himself on the side of Hezbollah, paving the way for the election of a successor of al - Hariri. On 25 January 2011 Miqati was elected by the National Assembly by a vote of Hezbollah and their supporting parties to succeed Saad al - Hariri. Miqati received 68 of 128 votes.
Although Miqati was nominated by the Shiite Hezbollah, he is a Sunni Muslim and was the only reason for the post in question. In Lebanon, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, the president Maronite Christian and the Speaker of Parliament must be a Shiite.
On March 22, 2013 Miqati resigned along with his cabinet. President Michel Sleiman asked it a day on staying until the formation of a new government business leader in office. The resignation Miqatis preceded tensions with Hezbollah. In advance of actually provided for the June 9, 2013 elections, the coalition partners were not able to agree on the creation of an Electoral Supervisory Authority. Dispute had also ignited a possible extension of the term of intelligence chief Ascharf Rifi. West set the opposition fear that Hezbollah wants to occupy this key position with a retainer.
In April 2013 Tammam Salam was appointed to head a new government. Their training lasts over ten months so that Miqati on February 15, 2014 was managing Prime Minister until the takeover of the Office by Salam.