Said al-Ghazzi

Said al - Ghazzi; Arab سعيد الغزي; (* 1893 in Damascus, Syria Vilayet, † September 18, 1967 ) was a Syrian lawyer and politician. He was twice Prime Minister of the Syrian Republic and is known in the Syrian policy as an independent Liberal, which made him a favorite in all times of crisis.

Career

Before the Sunni Ghazzi went into politics, he was one of the leading lawyers in the State of Syria. He joined in 1928 the National Bloc at that rejected the French mandate over Syria. He was appointed member of the Constituent Assembly under Ibrahim Hananu, which created the first constitution in republican Syria. His first Cabinet Office received Ghazzi 1936. Minister Jamil Mardam Bey appointed him Minister of Justice. He held this position in two other cabinets 1945 and 1948. He served as finance minister in 1939.

In the early years of the presidency of Shukri al - Quwatli Ghazzi served as vice president of the Syrian Parliament, velor, however, in the early 1940s to support the nationalists, since he supported the president used by the French Taj Eddine el- Hasani. In 1943 he came back with the nationalists and was re-elected on Quwatlis voters list.

Prime minister

After the fall of the military dictator Adib al- Shishakli Ghazzi formed on June 19, 1954 his first cabinet, where he served as defense minister at the same time. Ghazzis primary goal is to keep the army in their barracks and to prepare the civilian -military hostility, which was created by his predecessor Sabri al - Asali, an end was. After the parliamentary elections in 1954, he asked President Hashim al - Atassi November 3 at resignation and worked as a lawyer on.

In September 1955 Ghazzi was commissioned by President Shukri al - Quwatli again to form a government, and he accepted. During his second term Ghazzi did his best to move two elements to stabilize the nation: the military establishment and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. He also reminded to keep Syria within the Eastern bloc worked, and announced Syria's new friendship with the Soviet Union, as well as defense and trade agreements with other Eastern bloc states. His cabinet collapsed on June 14, 1956 due to the strong opposition of the people to his close relationship with Nasser and the USSR.

Later life

Ghazzi retreated under the short-lived United Arab Republic from public life. In 1961 he re-established Syrian republic was 1962 President of the Parliament on 17 September. He was also the last President of the Parliament of the Syrian Republic, since the Baath Party staged a coup on March 7, 1963, came to power.

Bibliography

• Sami M. Moubayed: Damascus in between democracy and dictatorship. University Press of America, Lanham, inter alia, 2000, ISBN 0-7618-1744-1. ( online at: books.google.com )