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After the 1992 parliamentary election resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), each holding 50 out of 100 seats, they decided to create a unity government (which was not recognized by the Ba'athist Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein). [3] Kurdistan Region after the 1998 cease-fire.
The Kurdistan Regional Government [a] (KRG) is the official executive body of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. The cabinet is selected by the majority party or list who also select the prime minister of the Iraqi Kurdish polity .
Nechirvan Barzani was born in 1966 in Barzan, Kurdistan Region.The name Nêçîrvan means hunter.Barzani's surname originates from his birthplace of Barzan.He is the grandson of Mustafa Barzani, a legendary Kurdish leader who led the Kurdish Revolution and armed resistance against the regimes of Iraq and was also the founder of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP).
After the reconciliation between the KDP and PUK, parliamentary election was held on January 30, 2005, and an agreement was made to let a KDP leader become prime minister for the first term and a PUK Prime Minister to become president for the second term, so Nechervan Barzani became prime minister.
Rebar Ahmed Khalid Barzani (born 1 July 1968) is an Iraqi Kurdish politician, interior minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, and a candidate for president of Iraq in 2022 after 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election. [1] [2] and on 13 October 2022, he withdrew his candidacy for the position. [3]
Kurdistan Democratic Party: 28 October 2022 Electricity Minister: Ziyad Ali Fadhil Islamic Virtue Party: 28 October 2022 Education Minister: Ibrahim Namis Yassin Azem Alliance: 28 October 2022 Justice Minister: Khaled Shwani Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: 28 October 2022 Health Minister: Salih al-Hasnawi: Independent: 28 October 2022
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: 8 Barham Salih برهم صالح بەرهەم ساڵح (born 1960) 2018: 2 October 2018 17 October 2022 4 years, 15 days Patriotic Union of Kurdistan: 9 Abdul Latif Rashid لطيف رشيد لەتیف ڕەشید (born 1944) 2022: 17 October 2022 Incumbent 2 years, 108 days Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
In the same month President of Kurdistan Region, President Masud Barzani, visited Washington, D.C., and met with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. [35] The Consulate General of the United States in Erbil was established in July 2011. [35] Kurdistan Region have a representative office in the United States from February 2007. [36]