The UK has since yesterday been living in the shadow of a rare and strange situation that it has not known about in its history. The conclusion is that important and sensitive positions in it are now occupied by persons of foreign origin. The mayor of the most important city, that is, the capital London, has a Pakistani origin, his name is Sadiq Khan and his prime minister is Indian origin Rishi Sunak. As for the head of his ruling party, that is, the Conservative Party, he is an Iraqi Kurd, born 55 years ago in Baghdad under the name of Nazim al-Zahavi, and was appointed the new prime minister to the position yesterday, Tuesday.
Al-Zahavi rushed to his Twitter platform and commented on his appointment with a tweet in which he said: “I am honored to be the leader of the party that I joined when I was young and it meant a lot to me. . I look forward to supporting Rishi Sunak in this role and in government as we tackle the challenges ahead.” as Treasury Secretary in Boris Johnson’s government, after which he was responsible for distributing the Covid-19 vaccine there.
The function of the head of the party is related to its administrative activities, in addition to managing its headquarters. As for party leader Rishi Sunak, he is taking on his own political role, according to Al-Arabiya.net read in the UK media that the position allows Zahavi, who has difficulty finding a photograph of him with his wife and three children, to continue to work behind the scenes with the government without occupying one ministry or another.
Al-Zahavi has been married since 2004 to a woman who is a year older than him and appears to be of Iraqi descent like him, and is Lana Fawzi Jameel Saeb, director of real estate company Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd. , and is listed on a market valued at more than $120 million, according to British media reports, some of which mention that the exiled immigrant and his family, who left Iraq “to escape Saddam Hussein’s regime” when he was 9 years old, all settled in East Sussex in the south of England, but he received his school education at King’s College in the capital, and then chemical engineering at University College, London University.
Then, in 2000, he founded an agency called YouGov and a party colleague specializing in online opinion polls and market research, and was its CEO until he was elected the Conservative candidate for Parliament after winning in 2010. which turned Abu Ahmed, who is fond of horseback riding like his wife, into a politician, always included in the list of missionaries to participate in any government formed by the party that nominated itself as its leader and prime minister on July 9 last year, but these two positions were luck and share of the retired Liz Terrace.
