Source: Talabani Party decides not to nominate the infallible for the presidency again .. For these reasons!
Source: Talabani Party decides not to nominate the infallible for the presidency again .. For these reasons!
2018/04/30 19:15
Baghdad today – Kurdistan
A source within the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) on Monday revealed a consensus within the party not to re-nominate Fuad Masum to the presidency for a second term.
The source said, in an interview with (Baghdad today), that “the leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan met and reached the conviction that the President of the Republic Fuad Masum did not provide what is required to renew his candidacy for the post of President of the Republic.”
The source, who asked not to be named, said that “this consensus exists in the family of the late Secretary General Jalal Talabani and even the first deputy, Kosrat Rasool, but no alternative person has been offered until now.”
The source added that “the consensus within the party came because of the failure of infallible in defending the national interests of the Kurds and did not have the strong personality that was enjoyed by his predecessor Jalal Talabani.”
The Iraqi Council of Representatives, was elected during its meeting on July 24, 2014, the Kurdish politician and candidate for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Fuad Masum, President of Iraq succeeding the late President Jalal Talabani, the leader of the same party at the time, after the election, which got 211 votes out of 225 votes .
The parliamentary elections are scheduled for May 12, the first Iraqi parliamentary elections in 2018, after the defeat of the organization calling for the end of last year, and the second since the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011.
It is also the fourth election since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and will take place on May 12 to elect members of the House of Representatives, which will elect the new prime ministers and the republic.
The elections are contested by 320 political parties, coalitions and electoral lists, as follows: 88 electoral lists, 205 political entities and 27 electoral coalitions, through 7,367 candidates, fewer than the number of 9,000 candidates in the 2014 elections.
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