Rowsch Shaways

Rodsch Nuri Schawais (Arabic روج نوري شاويس Rūdsch Nuri Schāwīs; Kurdish: روژ نورى شاويس Roj Nûrî Şawîs, in German as Rusch / Rowsch Schaw ( a) is transcribed; * 1946 or 1947) is an Iraqi politician. He was from June 30, 2004 Deputy of the then President Ghazi al - Yawar and was in the first freely elected government of Iraq since Saddam Hussein Deputy Prime Minister and thus deputy of Ibrahim al- Jaafari.

The Kurd Schawais is a member of the Kurdish Democratic Party ( Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP) and spokesman for the Kurdish Parliament in Arbil. On gesamtirakischer level, he was the only member of the new five-member state leadership, which did not belong to the previous Government. Partially had been expected that the two Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani would take of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Masud Barzani and the KDP of a leadership position.

Schawais was nominated along with four other persons on 1 June 2004 for the post; Kurds make up about 20 percent of the Iraqi population. The agreement on an ethnically and religiously balanced as possible governance was the oe Government was made ​​jointly with the U.S. civil administrator Paul Bremer and the UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi.

The other deputy al - Yawars was the Shiite and later Prime Minister Ibrahim al - Jaafari.

Schawais was with the Sunnis Abed Mutlaq al - Dschiburi and the secular Shiite Ahmad Chalabi, the deputy of al - Jaafari.