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Iraq
Kurdistan strives to obtain finance or oil portfolios
2010-11-16
ARBIL / Aswat al-Iraq: A member in the Kurdistan Alliance said on Sunday that the Kurdish side would strive to get the finance or oil portfolios instead of the foreign affairs in the new Iraqi government, reaffirming that the election rules would not allow the Kurds to get the foreign ministry for a second term.
I'd take the oil portfolio if I were a Kurd.
“The discussions of the different political blocs to distribute ministerial portfolios in the new government, scheduled to begin after the end of Eid al-Adha holidays, point out that the Kurds are trying to get the finance or oil ministries, instead of the foreign minister post, occupied by Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd, during the past years,” Sheikh Fateh Daroghabi, a legislator from the Kurdistan Islamic Party, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The Iraqi parliament, after eight months of continuous arguments and discussions that followed the nationwide elections on March 7, elected on 11/11/2010 a candidate of al-Iraqiya bloc, Osama al-Nejeifi as parliament speaker, the leader in the Sadrisit Movement, Qusay al-Suheil as his first deputy, and Member of the Kurdistan Alliance Aref Tayfur as his second Deputy.

The parliament also elected President Jalal Talabani for a second term in office. Talabani later assigned Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to form the new government.
Posted by:Steve White

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