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Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s parliament on Tuesday "},"modified":"2019-06-11T17:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:13:49","slug":"iraqi-kurdistans-parliament-elects-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/11\/iraqi-kurdistans-parliament-elects-new-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s parliament elects new prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iraqi Kurdistan\u2019s parliament on Tuesday elected Masrour Barzani, to become the semi-autonomous region\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n

He was elected with 87 votes out of 97 lawmakers who attended the session.<\/p>\n

Mr Barzani was nominated by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which got the most seats in 2018\u2019s elections, after it secured 45 seats in the 111-member assembly.<\/p>\n

His election comes one day after his cousin Nechirvan Barzani was sworn in as president of the Kurdistan region.<\/p>\n

The president will task him to form a new cabinet within 30 days.<\/p>\n

The new prime minister-designate is the son of Masoud Barzani, the region\u2019s first president, who held the post from 2005 until 2017.<\/p>\n

Born in 1969, Mr Barzani studied conflict resolution and political science in the United States.<\/p>\n

In 2012, he became chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council, in charge of the intelligence and other security services.<\/p>\n

Kurdistan has an estimated population of 5.2 million people.<\/p>\n

The region became self-governing with the formation of the Kurdistan Regional Government in 1992.<\/p>\n

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