Tuesday, June 26, 2007
KRG Prime Minister may not run another term
Kurdistan, Politics
(KurdishMedia) - Nechirvan Barzani, the KRG Prime Minister, stated that he may not stay in his post as the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Prime Minister. Mr Barzani was responding to the questions by journalists during a press conference in Arbil, the capital of southern Kurdistan, on Monday. Mr Barzani stated that the post of the prime minister would go to an individual from the PUK, led by Jalal Talabani, from next year. However, Mr Barzani did not elaborate on his next post or whether he would stay in the administration or not.
Labels: KRG, Nechirvan Barzani, prime minister, PUK
Friday, February 16, 2007
VP ready to serve as PM
Politics
(AFP) Iraqi vice-president Adil Abdul Mahdi would be ready to serve as prime minister of his violence-scarred country, he said in an interview with BBC World Service radio. Mahdi unsuccessfully ran for the mainly Shiite United Iraqi Alliance's (UIA) nomination to be prime minister of Iraq's first permanent government against Ibrahim Al-Jaafari in 2006, but lost by one vote.
Nuri Al-Maliki was then named UIA candidate and secured the post. According to extracts released in advance, Mahdi told the BBC he had supported both Jaafari and Maliki but "should there be a change in Iraq, I am still there. If the Iraqi parliament sees in me a prime minister, at the proper time, as an alternative, in a constitutional way, in a democratic way, I've served my country, I'll continue serving my country, that's all."
"I am one of the political players on the scene," he said, adding: "I am not a coup d'etat man."
On January 2 this year, Maliki told the Wall Street Journal newspaper in an interview he had not wanted to become prime minister in the first place and did not want to serve a second term in office.
Nuri Al-Maliki was then named UIA candidate and secured the post. According to extracts released in advance, Mahdi told the BBC he had supported both Jaafari and Maliki but "should there be a change in Iraq, I am still there. If the Iraqi parliament sees in me a prime minister, at the proper time, as an alternative, in a constitutional way, in a democratic way, I've served my country, I'll continue serving my country, that's all."
"I am one of the political players on the scene," he said, adding: "I am not a coup d'etat man."
On January 2 this year, Maliki told the Wall Street Journal newspaper in an interview he had not wanted to become prime minister in the first place and did not want to serve a second term in office.
Labels: Adil Abdul Mahdi, al-Maliki, prime minister
