The Iraqi Council of Ministers has agreed to convert Tal Afar, Tuz Khurmato districts to provinces has been welcomed by Turkmen and rejected by Kurds , as it also agreed to convert Nineveh Plain and Fallujah to two provinces .

Nujaifi said at a news conference attended by “Shafaq News “that,” converting districts to provinces is illegal and provoking this issue is not normal, particularly in the pre-election period”.

Nujaifi added that provinces law is not effective and that the amended law did not include a mechanism for converting districts to provinces.

In the case of the end of the formal proceedings , the districts will be provinces No. 20 and 21 , 22 and 23 in Iraq after the Iraqi government recently approved converting Halabja in Kurdistan Region to a province No. 19 .