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Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi
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رشاد محمد العليمي
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Al-Alimi in 2023
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| Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council of Yemen |
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| Assumed office 7 April 2022 Disputed by Mahdi al-Mashat (Supreme Political Council) |
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| Prime Minister | Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak |
| Vice President | Aidarus al-Zoubaidi Tareq Saleh Sultan Ali al-Arada Abdullah al-Alimi Bawazeer |
| Preceded by | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi (as President of Yemen) |
| Adviser to the President of Yemen | |
| In office 2014 – 7 April 2022 |
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| President | Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi |
| Member of the General Committee of the General People's Congress | |
| Assumed office 2011 |
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| Deputy Prime Minister of Yemen | |
| In office 2006–2011 |
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| President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
| Prime Minister | Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
| Interior Minister of Yemen | |
| In office 4 April 2001 – 18 May 2008 |
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| President | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
| Prime Minister | Abdul Qadir Bajamal Ali Muhammad Mujawar |
| Preceded by | Hussein Arab |
| Succeeded by | Mutaher al-Masri |
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| Born | January 15, 1954 Al-Aloom, Taiz Governorate, North Yemen |
| Political party | General People's Congress |
| Alma mater | Sanaa University Ain Shams University |
| Nickname | "Alimi" |
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| Allegiance |  Yemen |
| Branch/service |  Yemeni Armed Forces |
| Years of service | 1978–present |
| Battles/wars | Yemeni Civil War 1994 civil war in Yemen |
Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi (Arabic: رشاد محمد العليمي, romanized: Rashād Muḥammad al-ʻUlaymī; born 15 January 1954) is a Yemeni politician currently serving as the chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council since 7 April 2022.
Early life and education
Rashad al-Alimi was born on January 15, 1954, in Al-Aloom, a village in the Taiz Governorate, and is the son of judge Mohammed ben Ali al-Alimi. He graduated from Gamal Abdel Nasser High School in Sanaa in 1969. He subsequently obtained a bachelor's degree in military science from the Kuwait Police College in 1975, and another university degree in arts from Sanaa University in 1977, then a master's degree and a doctorate in sociology from Ain Shams University in Egypt between 1984 and 1988.
Career
A member of the General People's Congress, he was Minister of the Interior from April 4th 2001 to 2008. He then became Chairman of the Supreme Security Committee and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Defense and Security Affairs in May 2008, subsequently becoming a member of the Yemeni National Dialogue Conference, then adviser to President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in 2014.
On 3 June 2011, during the Battle of Sanaa, al-Alimi was wounded along with Ali Abdullah Saleh during an attack on the Al-Nahdin Mosque in the Presidential Palace. He was subsequently transferred to Saudi Arabia and to Germany for treatment, before returning to Sanaa on 13 June 2012. He left the city again as a result of the Houthi takeover in Yemen and began living in Saudi Arabia in 2015.
Al-Alimi became Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, a body given the powers of the President of Yemen, on 7 April 2022, through a decree by President Hadi, who irreversibly transferred his powers to the council. Multiple sources in the Yemeni and Saudi governments stated that Saudi Arabia, where Hadi was living, forced him to cede power to Alimi.
See also
In Spanish: Rashad al-Alimi para niños
