With the election of a republican president yesterday, Iraq put an end to a protracted year of disagreements and waiting after three failed efforts.
He competed for the presidency with the fierceness of the main Kurdistan party, namely the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which supported Abd al -Latif Rashid, and its traditional rival, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, which nominated the current President Barham Saleh.
Rashid’s victory, however, heightened worries about the intensification of hostilities between the two parties, which engaged in a civil war in the 1990s.
especially when he was unable to resolve disagreements and choose a single candidate.
Zamani Ali Salim, an associate professor of political science at a Sulaymaniyah-based institution, stated to Reuters on Friday that the relationship between the Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was at an all-time low.
” However, he ruled out that the tension would lead to the interruption of the relationship between the two parties, likely that the conflict will end in the end, because Rashid is a member of the National Union, and his wife is a strong figure within the party.
A year after the parliamentary elections, the Iraqi parliament yesterday chose the Kurdish leader to lead the nation as president, clearing the path for the establishment of a new administration.
Rashid, 78, a British-educated engineer who previously served as the country’s minister of water resources from 2003 to 2010, is noteworthy.
Anxiety over the rise in Kurdish animosity increased after Iraq’s election of a president.
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