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Talabani to be new president of Iraq
Veteran Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani will be named Iraq's new president at a parliament meeting on Wednesday, according to senior government sources.
Along with Talabani, two vice-presidents too would be named. One of the two would be Adil Abd al-Mahdi, a Shia politician who is currently finance minister.
The other vice-president, a Sunni, would be nominated from a list of three comprising outgoing interim president Ghazi al-Yawir, leader of the independent democrats Adnan Pachachi and Adnan al-Janabi, Aljazeera has learned.
The naming of a president and two vice-presidents is a key step towards forming a government.
The presidential council must then appoint a prime minister, who will choose a cabinet.
Kurdish negotiator and outgoing foreign minister Hushyar Zibari said an agreement on the new cabinet to be headed by Shia leader Ibrahim al-Jafari as prime minister was also largely complete and that it would be approved "within a few days".
Defence portfolio
Zibari said the Sunnis, who largely boycotted the elections two months ago, would also get the post of defence minister, without giving other details.
The news agency AFP quoting Deputy Speaker Husain Shahrastani as saying: "Ghazi al-Yawir will be nominated vice-president tomorrow."
"The Kurdish and (Shia) alliance lists accepted Ghazi al-Yawir," the agency quoted him as saying.
Zibari said the Shia and Kurds had reached an agreement on al-Yawir as "the common denominator" after receiving lists of candidates for vice-president from Sunni groups.
"We agreed jointly that tomorrow, when the assembly convenes, we would have a common proposal," he said.
Steady progress
"There is good, steady progress. I am confident it will be followed by a prime minister and cabinet within a few days," he said.
"The two main lists recognise the need to accelerate our efforts because time is running out and people are getting impatient," Zibari added.
Zibari said both his Kurdish alliance and the Shia United Iraqi Alliance, which dominated the January elections, had gone out of their way to reach out to the embittered Sunnis to include them in the government.
"Our common approach has been to include them. Irrespective of their passive attitude, they have been given significant positions."
Sunni Hajim al-Hassani was elected parliament speaker on Sunday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1BA55EC6-905D-498B-9B13-5A44D42B7869.htm
The other vice-president, a Sunni, would be nominated from a list of three comprising outgoing interim president Ghazi al-Yawir, leader of the independent democrats Adnan Pachachi and Adnan al-Janabi, Aljazeera has learned.
The naming of a president and two vice-presidents is a key step towards forming a government.
The presidential council must then appoint a prime minister, who will choose a cabinet.
Kurdish negotiator and outgoing foreign minister Hushyar Zibari said an agreement on the new cabinet to be headed by Shia leader Ibrahim al-Jafari as prime minister was also largely complete and that it would be approved "within a few days".
Defence portfolio
Zibari said the Sunnis, who largely boycotted the elections two months ago, would also get the post of defence minister, without giving other details.
The news agency AFP quoting Deputy Speaker Husain Shahrastani as saying: "Ghazi al-Yawir will be nominated vice-president tomorrow."
"The Kurdish and (Shia) alliance lists accepted Ghazi al-Yawir," the agency quoted him as saying.
Zibari said the Shia and Kurds had reached an agreement on al-Yawir as "the common denominator" after receiving lists of candidates for vice-president from Sunni groups.
"We agreed jointly that tomorrow, when the assembly convenes, we would have a common proposal," he said.
Steady progress
"There is good, steady progress. I am confident it will be followed by a prime minister and cabinet within a few days," he said.
"The two main lists recognise the need to accelerate our efforts because time is running out and people are getting impatient," Zibari added.
Zibari said both his Kurdish alliance and the Shia United Iraqi Alliance, which dominated the January elections, had gone out of their way to reach out to the embittered Sunnis to include them in the government.
"Our common approach has been to include them. Irrespective of their passive attitude, they have been given significant positions."
Sunni Hajim al-Hassani was elected parliament speaker on Sunday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1BA55EC6-905D-498B-9B13-5A44D42B7869.htm
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Kurdish negotiator and outgoing foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said an agreement on the new cabinet to be headed by Shiite Ibrahim al-Jafaari was also largely complete and that it would be approved "within a few days."
He said the Sunnis, who largely boycotted the elections two months ago, would also get the post of defense minister, without giving other details.
"Ghazi al-Yawar will be nominated vice president tomorrow," said deputy speaker Hussein Shahrastani of the outgoing head of state.
"The Kurdish and (Shiite) alliance lists accepted Ghazi Yawar."
Zebari also said that Shiites and Kurds had reached agreement late Tuesday on Yawar as "the common denominator" after receiving lists of candidates for vice president from Sunni groups.
"We agreed jointly that tomorrow, when the assembly convenes, we would have a common proposal," Zebari told AFP.
"There is good, steady progress. I am confident it will be followed by a prime minister and cabinet within a few days. The two main lists recognise the need to accelerate our efforts because time is running out and people are getting impatient."
Yawar’s nomination put an end to wrangling over the all important presidential council that will have Kurdish former rebel leader Jalal Talabani as president and Shiite Islamist Adel Abdel Mahdi as the other vice president.
The council formally nominates the prime minister and his cabinet before a majority vote by the 275-member parliament.
Zebari said both his Kurdish alliance and the Shiite United Iraqi Alliance, which dominated the January elections, have gone out of their way to reach out to the embittered Sunnis to include them in the government.
"Our common approach has been to include them. Irrespective of their passive attitude, they have been given significant positions."
Sunni Hajem al-Hassani was elected parliament speaker on Sunday and the community that dominated Saddam Hussein’s regime and all previous Iraqi governments is also to get four to six cabinet posts.
http://kurdmedia.com/news.asp?id=6542
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Abdel-Mahdi, Al-Yawar, and Talbani
The news from Iraq confirms that Talbani will be chosen tomorrow for presidency, and both Adil Abdel-Mahdi and Ghazi Al-Yawar as vice presidents.
JALAL TALABANI: Sunni Kurd and leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two key northern Kurdish parties. Born in 1934, he joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party as a teenager and then founded the PUK in 1975. He and KDP leader Massoud Barzani are running for office in a joint group of candidates, the Kurdish Alliance List
GHAZI AL-YAWER: He is a prominent Sunni member of the Shammar tribe, which includes Shiite clans and is one of the largest tribes in the Persian Gulf region. A civil engineer born in Mosul, al-Yawer, 45, studied in Saudi Arabia and at George Washington University in the United States. He heads the Iraqis Party.
ADIL ABDUL-MAHDI: Iraq's ex-minister of finance and a leading politician in the powerful Shiite Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Born in 1942, he is the French-educated son of a respected Shiite cleric who was a Cabinet minister in Iraq's monarchy. Running with United Iraqi Alliance.
No news about the PM.