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| Veteran Kurd Barham Salih becomes Iraq's next president |
| 2018-10-03 |
| [ARABNEWS] The veteran secular Kurdish politician Barham Salih was elected on Tuesday as Iraq’s next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), faced a challenge from Fuad Hussein of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). But Hussein withdrew from the second round of voting in parliament on Tuesday. His first act in the role was to assign Adel Abdul Mahdi, a veteran Shiite politician and former vice president, to form a government. The selection of the president is the second step in forming a government and is usually the easiest because the two main Kurdish parties decided on a single candidate in advance. The post of president is allocated to the Kurds under a 2005 agreement with Shiite and Sunni political forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |