The previous governor, Qasim Abid Muhammad Hammadi al-Fahadawi, was a businessman who had been nominated by the Awakening parties that had won the 2009 elections.
Following the 2013 Anbar governorate election Ahmed Khalaf Dheyabi, a protest organizer from the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the Uniters List, was eventually chosen as the new Governor.
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