BAGHDAD - Ibrahim Jaafari will struggle to get Kurdish backing for his bid to stay on as Iraqi prime minister despite a two-day visit to drum up support for his campaign, a senior Kurdish official said on Tuesday.
The official said Jaafariâs visit, which ended on Monday, failed to improve his strained relations with Kurds, who accuse him of monopolising power and failing to honour the deals he made to win Kurdish support the first time he took office. âThe visit was designed to melt the ice between us,â said the official from the Kurdish Alliance, the second biggest bloc in the current Iraqi parliament.
âBut it will be very difficult for Jaafari to get Kurdish support,â said the official, who declined to be named. âWe have strong reservations about him and the way he ran the government.
âWe also have reservations about the way he deals with Kurdish demands.â
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