Sunday, August 2, 2009

The presidential elections in Iraqi Kurdistan



a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysEeTZWt1FMy5gfvJSd6TkYGPLNPbuK829WiyJ5X0E__J1RZ9YbxY9EoQ5k5fdWwpEoBWmulIAVcqkRjIRefqPFt74dQSPXkhd75il9uAaHeHBo7Gyhl6Cg9g-tJi3zLZpbJ3Cv0SA8Vl/s1600-h/100px-Mesud_Barzani.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysEeTZWt1FMy5gfvJSd6TkYGPLNPbuK829WiyJ5X0E__J1RZ9YbxY9EoQ5k5fdWwpEoBWmulIAVcqkRjIRefqPFt74dQSPXkhd75il9uAaHeHBo7Gyhl6Cg9g-tJi3zLZpbJ3Cv0SA8Vl/s320/100px-Mesud_Barzani.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364877094043760706" border="0" //abr /In what will be my last post on a foreign election today (!), I thought I'd highlight that the a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Kurdistan_presidential_election,_2009" presidential election in Iraqi Kurdistan /a was held simultaneously with the parliamentary elections. Massoud Barzani from the KDP [above] is the incumbent and, as part of their alliance, the PUK has not put up an official candidate against him. Wikipedia reports that he got about 70% of the votes cast and so has been re-elected.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38622711-3029979184780024362?l=vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com'//div

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