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Adnan Mufti rejects to have been appointed
as Massoud Barzani’s veep
29.8.2010 |
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August
29, 2010
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Adnan Mufti, a senior
leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),
rejected the rumors last week that he has been
appointed by his party to be vice-president of the
Iraqi Kurdistan region instead of Kosrat Rasul who
held the position in the previous term.
Iraqi Kurdistan held its parliamentary and
presidential elections more than a year ago in July
2009, but since then Massoud Barzani, who was
re-elected, has yet to have a vice-president due to
alleged party disagreements over who should take the
position.
Some say that Massoud Barzani, president of the
federal region, disapproves Rasul to be his
vice-president for another term.
But some others say it is merely an internal dispute
within Jalal Talabani’s PUK, which has more than one
candidate for the position.
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Adnan Mufti (L), with Massoud Barzani, Kurdistan
president. Mufti, the former speaker of Kurdistan
parliament says he has not been appointed to become
Kurdistan's vice president. |
“He [Rasul] is already
our candidate,” said Mufti, former speaker of the
Kurdistan Parliament. “No one else has been proposed
for the post yet.”
London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published a
report saying that Mufti is going take the position
of the vice-presidency and Rasul will be made
responsible for the party’s affairs in the absence
of Talabani, who is likely to be the president of
Iraq for another term.
Other senior PUK leaders like Hakim Qadir Hama-Jan,
head of the security apparatus in Sulaimani backed
Mufti’s words that Rasool had yet to be the only
candidate to be Barzani’s deputy.
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