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Kurdish MP says Talabani naming for
presidency constitutional
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March
13, 2010
BAGHDAD,
— An Iraqi lawmaker from the
Kurdistan Alliance said on Saturday that her bloc’s
naming of incumbent Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
for the presidency is commensurate with the
constitution that stresses the principle of equal
opportunities.
“There is no text in the constitution stipulating
that a person nominated for the presidential post in
Iraq has to be of Arab ethnicity,” Tania Talaat told
Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“Items 14, 16 and 68 of the Iraqi constitution are
crystal clear regarding the post of president of the
state. Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, a
member of the Presidency Council, should be
defending the constitution,” Talaat said.
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Iraqi president Jalal Talabani, a Kurd. |
She
noted that statements by Hashemi’s office that the
nomination of Talabani for the presidency as
“unconstitutional” “would cause a split amongst the
groups of the Iraqi people in a very critical time
when all blocs need to understand each other to
outline a government platform for the next period in
the country”.
Earlier on Saturday, Hashemi’s office said in a
statement that he has the right to express his wish
about the person to the future president of Iraq.
A member of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi’s al-Iraqiya
bloc denied that incumbent Vice President Hashemi
was named for the presidential post,www.ekurd.netnot
so far the issue of posts have not been deliberated.
“There is no agreement regarding this matter yet.
The bloc is waiting for the election results to be
announced and only then it would talk about
dialogues with the other blocs and settle
differences,” Jamal al-Bateekh told Aswat al-Iraq
news agency.
Earlier, a member of the al-Iraqiya bloc’s Tajdeed
(Renewal) List said the bloc is “still” calling that
Hashemi be the president of Iraq, dismissing a
spokeswoman’s statements as “personal”.
“The al-Iraqiya bloc agrees that the post of
president of Iraq should be occupied by an Arab
person and still wants the post to be specifically
reserved for Hashemi,” Abdulkareem al-Samarraie said
in an interview with the semi-official al-Iraqiya
news channel.
Al-Iraqiya spokeswoman Maysoon al-Damlooji had said
that there was no one named for the presidential
post in Iraq.
The current president of Iraq is Talabani, a Kurd
and the leader of one of Iraq’s two main Kurdish
parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
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