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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Government officials and Congress that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, has been mediating between Shi'ite and Sunni parties and the country's Kurdish taken to hospital on Tuesday after suffering a stroke and now lay in critical condition but stable.
If you missed Talabani from the political scene will lose Iraq and an active mediator often intervened to reduce tensions within the fragile coalition government and between the central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
And varied reports about his health. Government sources said three he was in critical condition, but his office said the president's condition, aged 79 years stable and was undergoing intensive medical supervision after receiving treatment to dissolve the clot.
Said veteran Kurdish politician Mahmoud Othman, a close aide to the president, was in hospital in Baghdad, "President Talabani is suffering from minor stroke. Now in stable condition and doctors monitor his condition closely and if they decide that he needs to travel will do."
Talabani suffered from health problems this year and was treated abroad several times in the past two years.
He visited Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hospital earlier on Tuesday.
Under the Iraqi constitution, the parliament elects a new president if the position becomes vacant. Under the power-sharing deal in Iraq that the president be a Kurd and one of his deputies Sunni and the other Shiite.
Political analysts said that the Prime Minister of the former Kurdistan, Barham Salih, is the frontrunner to succeed Talabani if he became the President is unable to discharge the functions of that office.
But leaving now would from the Iraqi political scene that comes at a sensitive time and the succession process will be complex year after the departure of the last U.S. troops to the country.
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If you missed Talabani from the political scene will lose Iraq and an active mediator often intervened to reduce tensions within the fragile coalition government and between the central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
And varied reports about his health. Government sources said three he was in critical condition, but his office said the president's condition, aged 79 years stable and was undergoing intensive medical supervision after receiving treatment to dissolve the clot.
Said veteran Kurdish politician Mahmoud Othman, a close aide to the president, was in hospital in Baghdad, "President Talabani is suffering from minor stroke. Now in stable condition and doctors monitor his condition closely and if they decide that he needs to travel will do."
Talabani suffered from health problems this year and was treated abroad several times in the past two years.
He visited Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki hospital earlier on Tuesday.
Under the Iraqi constitution, the parliament elects a new president if the position becomes vacant. Under the power-sharing deal in Iraq that the president be a Kurd and one of his deputies Sunni and the other Shiite.
Political analysts said that the Prime Minister of the former Kurdistan, Barham Salih, is the frontrunner to succeed Talabani if he became the President is unable to discharge the functions of that office.
But leaving now would from the Iraqi political scene that comes at a sensitive time and the succession process will be complex year after the departure of the last U.S. troops to the country.
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