Background
Al-Wazir was born in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, the son of an upper-class Yemeni father and a sudeten German mother.
politician Member of the Hessian Parliament
Al-Wazir was born in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, the son of an upper-class Yemeni father and a sudeten German mother.
Since January 2014 he has been Deputy of the Hessian Minister-President Volker Bouffier and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development. Al-Wazir joined the German Green Party in 1989, and has been a member ever since. His party gained 7.5% of the votes.
This would have succeeded if not for an internal revolt by SPD members, forcing a new election in January 2009. In the 2009 elections, he again stood as the Green candidate for minister-president. On 18 January 2014, after the 2013 elections, Al-Wazir became Deputy of the Hessia Minister-President Volker Bouffier and Hessian Minister of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development in a Black-Green coalition.
From 1992 to 1994 he was chairman of the party's youth organisation (Green Youth) in Hesse. He was the leader of the Greens during the Hesse state election of 2008, and as such was the Green candidate for the position of minister-president of Hesse. In the aftermath of the election, he pushed hard for a "red-green-red" coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens, and the far-left Die Linke party.
This time his party, benefitting from popular anger at the SPD, increased its share to 13.7% of the vote, but the Greens remained out of government.
He is a member of the Landtag of Hesse and was co-chairman of the Hessian Green Party. He has been a member of the Landtag since 1995 and is co-chairman of the Hessian Green Party (with Kordula Schulz-Asche).