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Kurdistan Parliament Speaker to replace Barzani in case of political stalemate
8/9/2015
Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Yousif Muhammed Sadiq.....ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament’s Speaker will take over the Kurdish region’s presidency after Masoud Barzani’s current term ends on August 20, a Kurdish MP said on Friday. MP Talar Latif said Speaker Yousif Mohammed would become interim president and sign laws until Barzani’s replacement is chosen. “Parliament’s speaker will take Barzani’s position for two months, after his term ends,” Latif added, saying a new leader would need to be chosen during that period. Kurdish lawmakers debated a series of resolutions proposed by Kurdish political parties to amend the region’s presidential law in June.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Change Movement (Goran), Kurdistan Islamic Union and Kurdistan Islamic Group each submitted a version of an amendment to the parliament.
According to one expert on Kurdish legal affairs, Speaker Yousif Mohammed can legally replace Barzani as interim president.
Barzani’s second term ended in 2013 but was extended until 2015 by Kurdish MPs who said the region was not ready to have an election at the time.
The 68-year-old leader Massoud Barzani will have served 10 years as president when his current term ends on August 19, 2015. Political discussions have been taken place for some time about whether or not to renew his mandate.
“If it were a stable democratic system, they would just vote him out of office. But it’s not,” said Kirk Sowell, a Jordan-based political risk analyst who is the publisher of the biweekly newsletter Inside Iraqi Politics.
Barzani and his clan hold several key positions that give him control, for example, of the intelligence service and key media outlets.
Former leading council member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP and Massoud Barzani’s cousin, Adham Barzani, stated last March that extending Massoud Barzani’s presidential term is against the laws and regulations of Kurdistan region. Adham Barzani critised other senior members of KDP for obeying whatever the leader says and not having their own opinion on any decision; added this will create a dictatorship.
Massoud Barzani has led Kurdistan region as president from 2005 for two executive terms and his last term was extended in 2013 by ruling KDP and PUK for two more years on the condition that he can no longer run as president
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8/9/2015
Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Yousif Muhammed Sadiq.....ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Iraqi Kurdistan Parliament’s Speaker will take over the Kurdish region’s presidency after Masoud Barzani’s current term ends on August 20, a Kurdish MP said on Friday. MP Talar Latif said Speaker Yousif Mohammed would become interim president and sign laws until Barzani’s replacement is chosen. “Parliament’s speaker will take Barzani’s position for two months, after his term ends,” Latif added, saying a new leader would need to be chosen during that period. Kurdish lawmakers debated a series of resolutions proposed by Kurdish political parties to amend the region’s presidential law in June.
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Change Movement (Goran), Kurdistan Islamic Union and Kurdistan Islamic Group each submitted a version of an amendment to the parliament.
According to one expert on Kurdish legal affairs, Speaker Yousif Mohammed can legally replace Barzani as interim president.
Barzani’s second term ended in 2013 but was extended until 2015 by Kurdish MPs who said the region was not ready to have an election at the time.
The 68-year-old leader Massoud Barzani will have served 10 years as president when his current term ends on August 19, 2015. Political discussions have been taken place for some time about whether or not to renew his mandate.
“If it were a stable democratic system, they would just vote him out of office. But it’s not,” said Kirk Sowell, a Jordan-based political risk analyst who is the publisher of the biweekly newsletter Inside Iraqi Politics.
Barzani and his clan hold several key positions that give him control, for example, of the intelligence service and key media outlets.
Former leading council member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP and Massoud Barzani’s cousin, Adham Barzani, stated last March that extending Massoud Barzani’s presidential term is against the laws and regulations of Kurdistan region. Adham Barzani critised other senior members of KDP for obeying whatever the leader says and not having their own opinion on any decision; added this will create a dictatorship.
Massoud Barzani has led Kurdistan region as president from 2005 for two executive terms and his last term was extended in 2013 by ruling KDP and PUK for two more years on the condition that he can no longer run as president
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