{"id":17125,"date":"2018-10-02T20:25:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17125"},"modified":"2018-10-02T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:25:01","slug":"iraq-parliament-elects-barham-salih-as-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17125","title":{"rendered":"Iraq: Parliament elects Barham Salih as new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"77.0633299285\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a>&#8216;s lawmakers have elected veteran Kurdish politician Barham Salih as the country&#8217;s new president, the state television reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Barham is a<span>\u00a0former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraqi Kurdistan and a former deputy prime minister of the Iraqi federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Widely seen as a moderate, Salih was chosen on Tuesday after a dispute between the two main Kurdish parties <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/deadline-elect-iraqi-president-nears-181001190350731.html\">delayed the vote<\/a>, eventually forcing them to choose among 20 nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Shia lawmaker Hamid al-Moussawi said the session was delayed because the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were unable to agree on a single candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The new president will have 15 days to task the nominee of the largest parliamentary bloc with forming a new government.<\/p>\n<p>Under an unofficial agreement dating back to the 2003 US-led invasion, Iraq&#8217;s presidency &#8211; a largely ceremonial role &#8211; is held by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/kurds.html\">Kurd<\/a>, while the prime minister is Shia and the parliament speaker is Sunni.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s lawmakers have elected veteran Kurdish politician Barham Salih as the country&#8217;s new president, the state television reports. Barham is a\u00a0former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraqi Kurdistan and a former deputy prime minister of the Iraqi federal government. Widely seen as a moderate, Salih was chosen on Tuesday after a dispute&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}