Kurdistan MPs sit-in to choose its presidency body and formation of KRG

Kurdistan MPs sit-in to choose its presidency body and formation of KRG
2014-01-21T11:20:13+00:00

“Shafaq News” reporter who attended the gathering said that the sit-in comes four months after the legislative elections without choosing the Presidency of Kurdistan Parliament , which was reflected in the lack of possibility of forming a regional government for the lack of the agreement of political blocs on the distribution of positions .

He noted that the members of all the winning political blocs in the election are involved in the sit-in.

The elections of Kurdistan Parliament have been performed on 21 of last September that resulted in the progress Kurdistan Democratic Party , led by the region's president , Massoud Barzani after gaining 38 seats, while Change opposition, led by leader of the split MP, Nushirwan Mustafa gained 24 seats and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan led by President , Jalal Talabani was ranked the third by winning 18 seats and came after the Islamic Union with ten seats , Islamic group by six seats that were distributed among the rest of the seats to parties and small entities , quota seats were allocated to the components and religious nationalism in the region numbered 11 seats of the total 111 that the regional parliament consist of .

The winning blocs didn’t reach any agreement , after dialogues and negotiations conducted by Kurdistan Democratic Partys’ candidate for the presidency of the regional government , Nechirvan Barzani .

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