Al-Sudani breaks the “knot” of the Kirkuk Council...an agreement to proceed with the procedures for

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[size=52]Al-Sudani breaks the “knot” of the Kirkuk Council...an agreement to proceed with the procedures for forming the local government[/size]

[size=45]Hoping to resolve the “complex” of the Kirkuk government, which has not led to a breakthrough for about 6 months, Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani chaired the third meeting of the political forces representing Kirkuk Governorate, which went towards moving forward with the procedures for forming the local government.[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister’s Media Office stated in a statement received by Al-Mada, “The meeting witnessed a review of the efforts and consultations made to approve the political agreement paper between the components of the governorate, and the mechanisms necessary to form the local government, in accordance with the law, in order to maintain peaceful and fraternal coexistence among the spectrum of our people in Kirkuk, without exclusion or marginalization.”[/size]
[size=45]He continued, “During the meeting, the principles of the political paper were approved, while some of the observations received were studied and reviewed, as well as an agreement to hold a session of the Provincial Council within an agreed upon time frame.” In order to begin the constitutional procedures for forming the local government, and to approve the contents of the political agreement paper. “Yasi.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani agreed earlier with the political forces in Kirkuk Governorate, whose administration is disputed between the governments of Baghdad and Erbil, to form a unified management coalition that includes the forces that won the recent elections, which paves the way for the formation of the local government, while the coalition will remain under the presidency of Al-Sudani until the file is resolved. F.[/size]
[size=45]While the Arabs and Kurds insist on winning the position of governor, in exchange for the Turkmen's demand for a formula for deliberative governance over the position, distributed among all parties.[/size]
[size=45]A source who refused to reveal his name revealed to (Al-Mada), that “the meeting chaired by Al-Sudani with representatives and leaders of the political blocs that won membership in the Kirkuk Provincial Council, ended with an agreement to hold a session of the Provincial Council within a specific time frame; “To speed up the formation of the local government.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, “The Prime Minister listened to all the opinions presented.” ‎[/size]
[size=45]On February 21 of this year, the Prime Minister supervised a meeting that included all the winning blocs and set a deadline of last March 3 to prepare proposals related to the formation of a new administration for the governorate and the formation of a joint local government..‎[/size]
[size=45]It is scheduled that dozens of senior administrative positions will be redistributed among the components of Kirkuk Governorate, as most of them are now managed by proxy, including the head of the governorate council and his deputy, the governor and his two deputies and his assistants, the mayor of four districts and the directors of 16 districts, as well as a number of general directors.[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the spokesman for the United Arab Council in Kirkuk, Azzam Al-Hamdani, said in an interview with (Al-Mada) that “there is an agreement to rotate the position of governor of Kirkuk from two years to two years among the Kurdish Arabs.” He stressed that “the political impasse has begun to affect the general social situation and even the political climate.”[/size]
[size=45]Kirkuk is the second richest city in Iraq in terms of oil, after Basra, whose administration is disputed between Baghdad and Erbil within what was known after the American invasion of Iraq as Article 140 of the Constitution, which stipulates holding a referendum for its residents, giving them the choice between remaining with Baghdad or joining the Kurdistan region. .[/size]
[size=45]The governorate has witnessed security tightening for weeks, fearing any repercussions that might result from the choice of governor. For her part, the representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Party, Suzanne Mansour, said in an interview with (Al-Mada): “It was initially agreed upon to rotate (two years by two years), but the disagreement was over who should start first, and this is what hindered the progress of the agreement.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that Kirkuk Governorate held its first local elections on December 18, 2023, since the year 2005, in which the Kurds won seven seats, divided into 5 seats for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, two seats for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and one seat for the quota (Babylon), bringing the total number of seats to eight, and in return. The Arabs won six seats, divided as follows: the Arab Alliance had three seats, the Leadership Alliance had two seats, and the Pan-Arabism Alliance had one seat, while the United Iraqi Turkmen Front got two seats.[/size]
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