New Presidency of the Kurdistan Parliament
2019-02-18T17:23:00+00:00
shafaaq news/The Presidency of the Parliament of the new Kurdistan Region began its functions after obtaining the required votes during the election process within the
Council.
Parliament elected Vala Fred for the Democratic Party temporarily as speaker of parliament, Hemin Hawrami was the first deputy president, and Muna Nabi Qahwaji of the Turkmen blocs was secretary of the presidency.
The meeting was boycotted by the National Union because of its requirement to address the issues of sharing powers and positions in the region and the federal government, and normalization of the situation in the province of Kirkuk, and the appointment of a new governor, as a package before signing the draft bilateral agreement with the Democratic Party, which was developed by a joint committee of The leaders of the two parties, on the 5th of this month.
For the first time, a woman was elected to the Parliament of the Kurdistan Region during its previous sessions, which began in 1992, in an "exceptional" step.
The head of the Democratic bloc in the Parliament of Kurdistan, Hermin Hawrami, during the session that the mass submitted temporarily candidate vala Fred for the post, and in the case of agreement with the Union to the agreement will be withdrawn candidate, and the election of a candidate for the Union, which according to agreement the position of his share.
And dissolved the Democratic Party in the first place in the provincial parliament elections, which took place on the thirtieth of September last, achieving 45 seats out of the seats of the House of Representatives, which is 111, what he authorized to maintain the posts of the President of the Territory and the Prime Minister, to be assigned to the National Union, which dissolved Second with 21 seats, the post of speaker of the Parliament of the Territory
