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26 May 2009 The Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) has
announced the election of Dr. Osama El-Tekriti as a
new Secretary-General to replace the vice-president
Tarek Al-Hashemi who was appointed since 2004.
The party said, in an official statement on Sunday
24.05.09, that “the Shura Council of the party held a
meeting according to the internal system to hold the
final stages of elections of the party leadership,
which resulted in the winning of Osama Tawfiq El-Tekriti
to be appointed as the Secretary-General”.
It added that the head of the parliament Iyad Al-Samarraei
won the post of Deputy Secretary-General and there has
been a renewal for Mohsen Abdel Hamid as the Head of
the Shura Council of the party, in addition to the
winning of a number of members with the membership of
the party’s political bureau.
These elections are periodic elections of the IIP,
which emanates from the Muslim Brotherhood group, are
being held every four years where the
Secretary-General and his Deputy, Head of the Shura
Council of the party and members of the political
bureau.
In the statement, the IIP praised the former
Secretary-General of the party Tarek Al-Hashemi who
lead the party under the toughest conditions with
worthiness that lacks these days, and was a great
example in nationalism, impartiality and
scarification, pointing out that it was Tarek who
requested the exemption from the post “acknowledging
the great responsibility he has as a Vice-President of
the Republic”, as he wasn’t free for the party due to
his business in the government’s position.
In the contects, there were hints to the desire of Al-Hashemi,
who was appointed as a Vice-President of the Iraqi
Republic in 2006, desire to take the post of the
President of the Republic, pointing out that he had
introduced this matter to Arab and regional countries.
This step is in the interest of Al-Hashemi as a
Vice-President of the Repulic in a time during which
the country is preparing for the general elections of
the end of the year.
It is worth noting that IIP stems from the MB, which
is one of the most prominent party for the Sunni Arab
parties in Iraq and it participates in the political
process as it has most of the important positions for
Sunni Arabs, especially the position of the
Vice-President, Head of the Parliament and Head of the
Presidential office, which is occupied by Naseer El-Ani.
A number of the officials of the party were subject to
assassinations after entering politics during the
occupation, while Sunni leaders back then called the
parties that represented them to boycott the political
process.
The IIP had also participated in the legislative
elections which were held in 2005 as one of the
largest components of “the Iraqi Accordance Front”
which included “The Iraqi People’s Conference” led by
Adnan Al-Dulaimi and the “National Dialogue Council”
led by Khalaf El-Alyan, but the party was exposed to a
setback in the elections of the provincial councils
which were held last January.
Osama El-Tekriti (member of the house of
representatives of the Accordance Front) enjoys good
and extensive relations with Iraqi political blocs and
is described as the “harmonious personality”, was born
in Tekrit 1939, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine
- Baghdad University in 1963, completed his
post-graduate studies in the University of London,
joined the Muslim Brotherhood group in 1952, left Iraq
in 1972 as he led MB in Iraq and worked on the
reorganization of the Islamic Party abroad until he
became president of the party in the period between
1991 and 2001.
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