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Kurdish bloc leads 'Change' in
Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
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March
14, 2010
SULAIMANIYAH,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — An
alliance of Iraqi Kurdistan's two major parties was
holding off a new opposition group in the
battleground province of Sulaimaniyah, early results
from Iraq's March 7 polls showed Sunday.
The Kurdistania alliance, made up of regional
president Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic
Party KDP and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, garnered 178,071
votes in the election.
Goran ("Change" in Kurdish), which is largely
comprised of ex-PUK members, was second with
160,144.
It was not immediately clear what percentage of
votes had been tallied in Sulaimaniyah, which
accounts for 17 parliamentary seats in Iraq's
325-member Council of Representatives.
Gorran emerged in regional elections last year as a
rival to the two main ruling Kurdish parties and won
25 seats in the Kurdistan parliament.
Gorran is challenging
Talabani's PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), and
the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party),www.ekurd.netof regional
president Massoud Barzani and accuses the parties of
corruption. It’s headed by the former senior PUK-leader
Nawshirwan Mustafa, who was Talabani’s deputy until
2007.
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