Huda Jassim (Baghdad)
The Iraqi parliament announced the names of the 33 candidates to compete for the position of president of the country, most notably the current president, Barham Salih, the candidate of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, while there were conflicting expectations about holding the voting session today, Thursday, or not, suggesting the lack of approval of the leader of the “Sadr movement” Muqtada al-Sadr and the incompatibility between the two parties. Kurds to vote for one candidate. The Iraqi Council of Representatives announced 33 candidates for the position of President of the Republic, after setting a session today to elect a new president in light of the intensification of differences over this position by the two main Kurdish parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. Dr. Ghazi Faisal, director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, told Al-Ittihad that two-thirds of parliament members would attend Thursday’s session to elect a president, with the possibility that the Kurdistan Democratic Party deputies would not attend and withdraw their candidate for the post. In turn, the expert in Iraqi political and legal affairs, Amir al-Dama’i, said in statements to Al-Ittihad that any parliamentary session without the participation of the KDP will lead to their withdrawal from the political process, as did the Sadrist movement.
Dr. Abdul-Karim Al-Wazzan, Dean of the College of Mass Communication at the Islamic American University in Minnesota, linked the parliament session today, Thursday, to the position of the leader of the “Sadr movement” towards it and the Kurdish parties.
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