Sadeq Amin Abu Rass

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Sadeq Amin Abu Rass
صادق أمين أبو راس
Chairman of the General People’s Congress (disputed)
Assumed office
7 January 2018
Preceded byAli Abdullah Saleh
Member of the Supreme Political Council
Assumed office
15 August 2016
PresidentSaleh Ali al-Sammad
Personal details
Born1952 (age 69–70)
Bart Al Anan District, Al Jawf Governorate, Yemen Arab Republic[1]
Political partyGeneral People’s Congress

Sadeq Amin Abu Rass (born 1952; Arabic: صادق أمين أبو راس) is the Chairperson of the Sanaa-based General People’s Congress. Sadeq Rass was named the GPC’s Leader on January 7, 2018, following previous leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s death on December 4, 2017, during the Battle of Sanaa. Sadeq Rass had served as an Agriculture Minister before his appointment,[2] as Governor of Taiz Governorate, and in the Republic of Yemen Armed Forces. He was wounded in the June 2011 assassination attempt on President Ali Abdullah Saleh and was taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment during the Yemeni revolution.[1] Several leaders of the GPC later rejected his appointment.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "صادق أبو راس.. خليفة صالح بزعامة المؤتمر الشعبي". January 8, 2018 – via www.aljazeera.net.
  2. ^ Reuters Staff (January 7, 2018). "Yemeni party names new leader after Saleh killed" – via www.reuters.com.
  3. ^ "Leaders in the GPC party reject meeting held in Sanaa". The National.
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