President of Iraq (original) (raw)

The President of Iraq is Iraq's head of state and chief of government. All of Iraqis presidents have been authoritarian dictators so the office does not have a clearly designed constitutional structure.

The president exercises all power single-handedly, operating only with the consultation of a small cabinet.

The office is likely to change upon the adoption of a new constitution.

Presidents of Iraq

• Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i1 (1958-1963)
• Abd as-Salam Arif (1963-1966)
• Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz (1966)
• Abd ar-Rahman Arif (1966-1968)
• Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr (1968-1979)
• Saddam Hussein (1979-2003)

Presidents of the Iraq interim governing council

• Ibrahim al-Jaafari (August 2003)
• Ahmed Chalabi (September 2003)
• Iyad Allawi (October 2003)
• Jalal Talabani (November 2003)
• Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim (December 2003)
• Adnan Pachachi (January 2004)

See also: List of Prime Ministers of Iraq, List of Kings of Iraq

[1] Though head of state, he was not technically president.