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Title: Kirkuk (Iraq Report)
Author : The Weekly Middle East Reporter (Beirut, Lebanon)
Release Date : January 08, 2009
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 52 KB

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Iraq's Potentially Explosive Issue Iraqi Kurds voted late last month in parliamentary and presidential polls, which kept President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan without removing voters' worries about corruption or ending a feud with Baghdad over land and oil. Barzani, a former guerrilla leader, defeated five competitors, the first time the relatively peaceful northern enclave has elected a president directly. Turnout was high, at 78.5 percent across Kurdistan, the Electoral Commission said. The region's powerful ruling parties--Barzani's Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) and the Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talbani, a Kurd--ran jointly against 23 alliances of smaller parties. "The process was carried out successfully," Electoral Commission chief Faraj al-Haidari said in a news conference. "Generally speaking, there were no violations, no polling station closed and the process was never interrupted."