Kurdish official: The two main parties in the region will go to Baghdad with one candidate for the post of President of Iraq
Kurdish official: The two main parties in the region will go to Baghdad with one candidate for the post of President of Iraq
2022-09-17 07:56
Shafaq News/ A senior Kurdish official disclosed a “fundamental” change in the negotiations between the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, stipulating the revival of a “unified front” for a comprehensive settlement of the situation in the Kurdistan region before going to Baghdad with one candidate for the position of President of the Republic, according to what It was published by the London-based newspaper “Al-Sharq al-Awsat” issued today, Saturday.
The newspaper quoted the source as saying, “It is almost certain that the two main parties will not go to the Iraqi parliament session with candidates for the post of president.”
He added that “the two parties agreed to revive a united Kurdish front, as in the past, which has nothing to do with the calculations of negotiations with the political forces in Baghdad.”
He stated that this bilateral front “will not first negotiate the position of the president, but rather a new political equation within the Kurdistan Region.”
According to a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the negotiations are now in an “advanced stage, after the two parties reached a new formula to reverse the negotiation path, by making the position of the President of the Republic one of the outcomes of the settlement, not a prelude to it.”
The Kurdish source refused to comment on whether President Barham Salih, who belongs to the Patriotic Union, will continue in a new term or withdraw his candidacy, but explained that “the changes desired from the negotiations within the region will make it easier for the two parties to resolve the Baghdad file, without the influence of (the coordination framework).” Shiite or the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada al-Sadr.
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