Mir Rahman Rahmani
Mir Rahman Rahmani | |
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| Speaker of the House of the People | |
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In office 29 June 2019 – 15 August 2021 |
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| President | Ashraf Ghani |
| Deputy |
Amir Khan Yar (first deputy) Ahmad Shah Ramazan (second deputy) |
| Preceded by | Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi |
| Member of the House of the People | |
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In office 26 April 2019 – 15 August 2021 |
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| Constituency | Parwan province |
| Constituency | Parwan province |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Bagram, Parwan province, Afghanistan |
| Children | 1 son, 5 daughters |
| Occupation | Politician, businessman |
| Ethnicity | Tajik |
Mir Rahman Rahmani (Pashto: میررحمان رحماني, Dari: میر رحمان رحمانی; born 1962) is an Afghan politician and businessman who is the current de jure Speaker of Afghanistan's House of the People (Wolesi Jirga, the House of Representatives), holding the office since June 2019, until his flight from Afghanistan in 2021. He has been a member of the Wolesi Jirga since 2010.
On 29 June 2019, he was elected as Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga, receiving 136 votes; the other candidate, Mohammad Wardak, received 96 votes.
In August 2020 Rahmani was exposed in the Cyprus Papers, an Al Jazeera investigation which alleged that he had bought Cypriot citizenship.
Following the fall of Kabul into the control of the Taliban, Rahmani was reported to have fled into Pakistan.