Adil Abd al-Mahdi, also known as Adil Abdalmahdi, is a Shia and an Iraqi politician. He is the Vice President of Iraq and thus a member of the Iraqi Presidential Council, which also includes the Sunni Vice President Ghazi al-Yawar and the Kurdish President Jalal Talabani. He was part of a splinter group of the Iraqi Communist Party before turning to political Islam. He is the son of a Shia cleric who served as a minister during the monarchy in Iraq. Since 1969, he has been in exile in France, away from the subsequent developments in Iraq. He is currently a member of the influential party Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, which is part of the coalition that won the parliamentary elections on January 30, 2005.