{"id":24197,"date":"2018-12-04T00:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24197"},"modified":"2018-12-04T00:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:23:10","slug":"netanyahu-to-meet-us-secretary-of-state-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24197","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu to meet US secretary of state in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\nBAGHDAD: Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said on Monday it had nominated current premier Nechirvan Barzani to succeed his uncle Masoud Barzani as president of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Masoud Barzani\u2019s son Masrour as premier of the regional government.<br \/>With 45 of 111 seats, the KDP is the biggest party in the Kurdish assembly after September\u2019s regional election but 11 shy of an outright majority, and will have to govern in coalition.<br \/>Masrour Barzani is currently Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s security chief. Both Masrour and Nechirvan have occupied senior roles within the KRG throughout the last decade.<br \/>Veteran Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani, still the head of the KDP, stepped down after 12 years as regional president in November 2017, less than a month after helming a referendum on Kurdish independence that backfired<br \/>and triggered a crisis for Iraq\u2019s Kurds.<br \/>The post has remained vacant ever since. The president\u2019s powers were divided between the prime minister, Parliament and the judiciary in a makeshift arrangement, leaving the future of the presidency uncertain.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/1347\/light_8.png\" width=\"275\"><br \/>The semi-autonomous region does not have a formal constitution, having failed to ratify it in Parliament since it was drafted in 2009.<br \/>Any future power-sharing arrangement would require a rethinking of presidential powers, which would need to be ratified by Parliament.<br \/>\u201cWe still don\u2019t know what the presidency will look like. Will it become a ceremonial post filled by Parliament?\u201d said Kamal Chomani, a Kurdish political analyst and nonresident fellow at the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.<br \/>\u201cIn any case, Nechirvan will be weaker than Masrour but will stay powerful enough to control the foreign relations of the KRI. It all depends on how the presidential law will be amended,\u201d he said.<br \/>Relations with the previous Iraqi administration of Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi were strained by the referendum.<br \/>But with a new Iraqi government in place, led by Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Irbil and Baghdad have in recent weeks signalled a willingness to work together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: Iraq\u2019s Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) said on Monday it had nominated current premier Nechirvan Barzani to succeed his uncle Masoud Barzani as president of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Masoud Barzani\u2019s son Masrour as premier of the regional government.With 45 of 111 seats, the KDP is the biggest party in the Kurdish assembly after September\u2019s regional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24197","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\/24197","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=24197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}