Native Name: | صادق أمين أبو راس |
Office: | Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen |
President: | Mahdi al-Mashat |
Term Start: | 24 August 2022 |
Predecessor: | Qassem Labozah |
Office1: | Chairman of the General People’s Congress |
Term Start1: | 7 January 2018 Disputed with Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and Ahmed Saleh[1] [2] |
Predecessor1: | Ali Abdullah Saleh |
Office2: | Member of the Supreme Political Council |
President2: | Saleh Ali al-Sammad |
Term Start2: | 15 August 2016 |
Party: | General People’s Congress |
Birth Place: | Bart Al Anan District, Al Jawf Governorate, North Yemen[3] |
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,[4] 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. Several leaders of the GPC later rejected his appointment.[5]