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Jalal Talabani was elected president without any serious obstacles, according to a strategic agreement between the KDP and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). In 2014, Fuad Masum was elected president. In 2018 and months after Talabani's death, a dispute erupted between the two parties. However, ...
Jalal Talabani was elected president without any serious obstacles, according to a strategic agreement between the PUK and KDP. In 2014, Fuad Masum was elected president by agreement between the two parties, but in 2018, after Talabani's death, a great duel took place between the two sides, whic ...
Jalal Talabani, from 2018 Masoud Barzani seemed unwilling to hand this position to the PUK anymore and is seeking maximum power in both Erbil and Baghdad.
The KDP, led by Masoud Barzani, first nominated former foreign and finance minister Hoshyar Zebari for the post but after objections by so ...
Jalal Talabani was elected president without any serious obstacles and according to a strategic agreement between the two Kurdish parties. In 2014, Fouad Masum, of PUK, was elected president also in line with the agreement, but in 2018, after Talabani's death, a great duel took place between the ...
Jalal Talabani, the founder and former leader of the Patriotic Unionnin 2017, a dispute over the president post broke out between the two traditional powers in the autonomous Kurdish region.
In October 2021 elections, the KDP won 31 and the PUK won 17 seats, an equation tempting the KDP to bi ...
Jalal Talabani, the former president of Iraq and the leader of the Patriotic Union, the Union suffered organizational weakness. Therefore, the Kurdish parliamentary bloc, whose majority is formed by the Kurds of the Democratic Party, insists that an option affiliated with this party should be chosen ...
Jalal Talabani. The Iraqis mainly remember the executive record of this 58-year-old engineer with his defense of environment.
Despite not having a political reputation, Rashid is not unfamiliar with the political arena. The Kurdish politician, who holds a degree in hydraulic engineering from Univer ...
Jalal Talabani. A clear example of the breakdown of this agreement is the extensive efforts of the KDP to win the Iraqi presidential post, which has always been in the hands of the PUK after 2003.
Today’s tensions are, no doubt, an outcome of a 60-year dispute started by Mullah Mustafa ...
Jalal Talabani, runs Suleimanyah province.
Among the most important issues of difference between the two parties of the Kurdistan region are the amendment of the election law and equalization of all financial incomes, as well as real participation in the administration of the local governing ...
Jalal Talabani, the President of Iraq at that time and the late leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), openly embraced Ehud Barak, the Defense Minister of Israel, during a conference in Greece. In response to protests from the Iraqi people and lawmakers, Talabani clarified that he did thi ...