******* Kurds choose their candidate for the presidency before they go to parliament and Barham Saleh, the front-runner

Posted 22/07/2014 02:23 PM


On the eve of the parliamentary session scheduled Wednesday vote deputies Kurdistan Alliance in the Iraqi parliament to choose one of two candidates for the post of the president of Iraq, namely, Barham Salih, and Fuad Masum, to be put on the parliament session, amid doubts the possibility of convening the meeting because of the large number of nominations, which amounted to 50, including 9 women.

And after a meeting of the forces of the Kurdish five, members of the Kurdistan Alliance, in the city of Sulaimaniyah was the demand of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by outgoing President Jalal Talabani agreed to one of the candidates chosen by to take over as head of the country's two Barham Salih, Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Fuad Masum, the former head of the first Iraqi parliament was formed after the fall of the former regime in 2003, and the first president of the provincial government in 1992.



And participated in the meeting Kiedio Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Movement for Change and the Kurdistan Islamic Union and the Islamic Group, where they discussed the candidacy for the post of President of the Republic, a share of the National Union.

Asked Kurdish forces of the Patriotic Union of choosing one of the two candidates: Barham Salih, Fuad Masum, for submission to the parliamentary session scheduled Wednesday.

A spokesman for the Islamist group Mohammad Hakim told a press conference after the meeting that the four parties supporting the Union to choose the most efficient person for the job.

 The source said that the Kurdish deputies Kurdish Alliance Monday and sixty Federal Parliament will hold a meeting within twenty-four hours ahead of the vote in favor of Omasom.

 He pointed out that the Kurdish forces almost unanimous vote to Barham Salih, which increases the chances of the presidential sit on the chair of the Republic of Iraq over the next four years.


He expected the Iraqi source familiar not get any of the presidential candidates favor and infallible on the parliamentary majority (165 +1) of the votes of the House of Representatives's 328 members, in the first round of the vote due to the large number of nominations for the post and the dispersion of votes among about 50 candidates have applied to win the presidency, including nine women of other components, although the post is dedicated to the component specifically for the Kurdish PUK, according to the custom of political force in the country in the distribution of senior positions since the fall of the former regime in 2003.

The source pointed out that the failure of any of the candidates get a majority in the first round of voting will lead to a second vote in the parliamentary session Wednesday itself, then the expected withdrawal from the presidential race infallible in favor of the benefit.


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