| Bahaa Al Araji | |
| Native Name: | بهاء الاعرجي |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Order1: | Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq |
| Term Start1: | September 8, 2014 |
| Term End1: | August 10, 2015 |
| President1: | Fuad Masum |
| Alongside1: | Saleh al-Mutlaq, Rowsch Shaways and Hoshyar Zebari[1] |
| Order2: | Member of Iraqi parliament |
| Term Start2: | April 22, 2006 |
| Term End2: | September 8, 2014 |
| Birth Place: | Kadhimiya, Baghdad, Iraq |
| Birth Date: | 1967 |
| Nationality: | Iraqi |
| Party: | United Iraqi Alliance |
| Children: | 4 |
| Residence: | Baghdad, Iraq |
| Alma Mater: | University of Baghdad |
| Profession: | Lawyer |
Bahaa Araji (Arabic: بهاء الاعرجي) was a member of the Iraqi National Assembly until 2014. He served as Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Affairs from September 2014 to August 2015. He is a spokesman for the United Iraqi Alliance.
He was a member of the committee that drafted the Constitution of Iraq
During coalition negotiations in 2006 he strongly opposed the inclusion of Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National List in the government, saying they represented a red line drawn in blood.
Bahaa Al Araji was born in Kazimiyah, Baghdad, to a large family. He was the 5th oldest child of 11 to Hussein Al-Araji.
Bahaa Al Araji stood in the 2010 Iraqi Parliamentary Elections for the Nasiriyah district as candidate no.2 for the National Iraqi Alliance. He won a seat in the new government formation with over 40,000 votes, becoming the most popular candidate in the Nasiriyah district.He was nominated as one of the ten names on the Sadrist mock election ballot and received 5% of the votes, however the elections outcomes were discarded due to allegations of the voting being biased.
In August 2015, after his resignation and consecutive Deputy Prime Minister position abolishment by an Al Abadi Government reform, he was targeted by a probe for nine allegations including property racketeering and financial corruption. He was one of the most prominent official to be investigated in the fight against corruption in Iraq.[2]