As part of this rivalry Jubouri played a role in the attempts to prevent Jebara from standing for election on de-Ba'athification grounds.

[citation needed] Jubouri's political party, the Iraqi People’s Coalition, received the largest share of the votes in the 2013 Saladin governorate election.

[2] In the April 2014 elections, he headed the Al-Arabiya Coalition list in Salah ad-Din, which won the highest number of votes in the province.

[4] In August 2015, in response to protests against government corruption and inefficiency, the Prime Minister abolished 11 cabinet posts, including the Ministry for Provincial Affairs.

[5] After his removal it was revealed that the Integrity Commission had issued a travel ban against him; he had been twice convicted of car theft, in 1985 and 1992 (which should have made him ineligible as an MP), and the qualification he had declared from a religious institution in Salah ad-Din was not equivalent to a university degree, and therefore he was not eligible to be a minister.