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Erbil, 31 May (AKI) - The Kurdish parliament is
due to meet on Saturday for the first since the 30
January elections, after the two main Kurdish
parties appear to have resolved their differences.
The first meeting of the parliament involves three
sessions; in the first the Kurdish deputies will
elect the president of the parliament, Adnan
al-Mufti, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),
his deputy, from the rival Kurdistan Democratic
Party (KDP), and the parliamentary secretary, who
will probably be a member of the smaller Kurdish
Islamic Union, which gained nine seats.
In the second session the deputies will elect the
regional prime minister, Neghervan Barzani, the
number two of the KDP. The third session will be
dedicated to the controversial law on the presidency
of Iraqi Kurdistan determining the powers of the
president, which must be voted by the parliament.
Deep divergences between the two main groupings,
Massoud Barzani's KDP and Jalal Talabani's PUK, have
until now prevented the assembly elected in January
from beginning its work, creating growing
frustration among Iraqi Kurds.
The secretary of the politicl office of the KDP,
Fadil Mirani, said "it is a pity that we Kurds are
playing an active role in the Iraqi parliament and
in the formation of the new government in Bahghdad,
but that four months after the elections we have not
been able to have a meeting of our own parliament".
Mirani believes this delay is due to the "different
political views and interests of each party" but
said these had now been overcome.
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