Abdul Latif Rashid becomes Iraq's 4th president
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- 14 Oct 2022
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Iraqi Kurdish politician Abdul Latif Rashid became the fourth president of Iraq after he was selected to replace Barham Saleh in a parliamentary vote on Thursday.
Rashid's election paves the way for the formation of a new government after a yearlong deadlock.
Rashid, 78, is a British-educated engineer and was the Iraqi minister of water resources from 2003-2010.
He won more than 160 votes against 99 for the incumbent Saleh, an assembly official said.
Rashid's first task was expected to be nominating a candidate for prime minister to replace the current caretaker premier, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, and attempt to form a new government for the crisis-hit nation.
A favored candidate for the prime minister's post was Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, 52, of the Shiite Muslim bloc the Coordination Framework, which includes pro-Iranian former paramilitary groups.
When Sudani was first proposed in July, this sparked mass protests by backers of his Shiite rival, the fiery populist and cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers breached the Green Zone and stormed Parliament. Read More…
