Sources: Barham Salih, the front-runner for the presidency of Iraq

Sources: Barham Salih, the front-runner for the presidency of Iraq

07.21.2014 02:30 PM

Orbit – Elaph / with the end of the period specified for the reception of the Iraqi parliament to the names of candidates for the post of President of the Republic is expected to submit the Kurdistan Alliance names of candidates, Barham Salih, and Fuad Masum, in the coming hours with high chances of the first to win the presidency with what shown by reference to support him as well as the Sunni forces and most of the factions of the Shiite alliance . told Iraqi source familiar ‘Elaph’ on Monday that the Shiite authority in Najaf sent signals its support for the presidential candidate, Barham Salih, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) led by outgoing President Jalal Talabani, who previously held the positions of vice president of the federal government and the presidency of the Kurdistan region. pointed out that Some Shiite political forces asked the reference for the position of the candidates to the presidency explained its support for Barham Salih, because of his experience with him from maintaining good relations with the various Iraqi forces and positions of moderate crises that hit the relations between Erbil and Baghdad and the possibility of playing a role in the fragmentation because of its relations with the regional president Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, leaders of political blocs to participate in the federal government. said the source, who preferred anonymity for the sensitivity of the subject that Barham Saleh holds a legitimate real national reconciliation Nadzh It is also acceptable to Arab, regional and international. noted that the infallible suffering from health problems requiring his presence outside Iraq for periods long for treatment, which could hinder the carrying out his duties presidential faceted fully in the difficult circumstances facing Iraq require a presence and a great activity to overcome. source expected the lack of any of the presidential candidates favor and infallible on the parliamentary majority (165-1) of the votes of House’s 328 members and so on The first round of voting will take place during a session of the House of Representatives expected next Wednesday due to the large number of nominations for the post and the dispersion of votes among the eight candidates have applied to win the presidency, including six of the other components, although the post is dedicated to the component of the Kurdish specifically for Talabani’s party, according to the quotas in force in the country in the distribution of senior positions since the fall of the former regime in 2003. source noted that the lack of any of the candidates a majority in the first round of voting will lead to a vote the second in the parliamentary session itself Wednesday expected then withdrawal infallible from the presidential race in favor of the benefit. was declared in the city of Sulaymaniyah last night to agree on the nomination of leaders in the party, Barham Salih, and Fuad Masum, for the post of President of the Republic share the Kurds in the three presidencies of the Republic, the parliament and the government. confirmed Mullah Bakhtiar official body operating in the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan he ‘after two days of debates on the identification of the candidates of the National Union for the post of President of the Republic We decided in the end to be Dr. Fuad Masum, and Dr. Barham Ahmed Saleh candidates of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) for the post of President of the Republic ‘. added Bakhtiar in a statement distributed by the Office of party flags and got ‘Elaph’ the text he has been informed of Massoud Barzani, President of Kurdistan, and Salim al-Iraqi Parliament Speaker this decision. other candidates from outside the Kurds and in addition to these two candidates has offered six other candidates for the post of President of the Republic of non-Kurds, although the post is dedicated to this component They are: MP Mehdi al-Hafez and former Minister of Planning and Shaker book about the ‘coalition of Iraq’ and MP Hanan al for the State of Law coalition led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and feminist activist Rehab apparent resident in Germany in addition to the legal adviser Ahmed Abbadi and presidential candidate in the 2010 elections Hussein Musawi. and the multiplicity of these nominations for the position of president has told the Iraqi source familiar ‘Khaleej Times’ that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki pushing to increase the stresses of his opponents Kurds that there is strong opposition to their policies in addition to the large number of nominations may fail candidate Kurds in obtaining the required majority, which is half the number of members of parliament plus one and then bargaining Kurds winning the third term in the presidency of the Government of return for their support in Neil prime Republic. candidates for the positions of Vice President and along with it has nominated the coalition forces of the National Representative for the component of the Sunni leader of a coalition ‘Uniting for Reform’ former House Speaker Osama Najafi to the position of vice president sole candidate for the position within the elections, especially after the abdication of the position of Speaker of the House to MP Salim Jubouri. was also nominated component Turkmen member of the leadership of the Liberal bloc represented by the Sadrist movement Fawzi Akram Tarzi for the position of Second Vice-President, stressing that he is confident that the particular component Turkmen admissibility and the voices of many in the parliament because the Turkmen reject the division of Iraq under any names. noted that the position of President of the Republic is the share of the Kurdistan Alliance, according to the consensus of political and sectarian and national meetings between the components and the parties in the last presidential cycles.

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