PNN – After a year, the Iraqi parliament finally elected its new president and appointed 76-year-old Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani to the presidency.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, “Mahmoud Dawood Salman Musa Al-Mashhadani” was the first speaker of the parliament after the fall of Saddam Hussein and the 2003 US invasion and occupation of Iraq, and he was the head of the Iraqi legislature from 2006 to 2009.
In 2008, Al-Mashhadani was also elected as the head of the Union of Arab Parliaments.
He was admitted to medical school in 1988 and after graduation, he worked as a doctor in the Iraqi army.
After 2003, Al-Mashhadani had an active presence in the Iraqi political process.
He became the head of the political office of Al-Dawa and Al-Arshad Organization and in 2004 he was a member of the Iraqi National Dialogue Assembly.
He was also elected as a member of the Iraqi Constitution Drafting Committee in the same year.