US official visits Erbil, meets Kurdish officials

<p style="text-align:left">US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State (IS), Brett McGurk, met on Sunday night, September 2, with a delegation of the PUK and the KDP parties in Erbil amid efforts to form a new Iraqi government.

A video posted on social media by media outlets affiliated with the PUK and the KDP, showed that McGurk was accompanied by US Ambassador to Iraq Douglas Silliman.
The US delegation met with the secretary of the KDP politburo Fazil Mirani, KDP politburo spokesman Jafaar Emniki, and KDP official Fuad Hussein, the head of the PUK delegates Mala Bakhtiyar, and PUK politburo spokesman Saadi Ahmed Pira, NRT reported.
Eighteen political lists in Iraq, including those of nationalist Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, have come to an agreement to form largest parliament bloc capable of forming a new government.
The bloc consists of 184 deputies, which is above the number needed for a majority.
Meanwhile, the leader of the State of Law Coalition, former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, has announced a bloc called "al-Bina," which he claimed included 145 deputies.
It was unclear as of Monday morning whether the KDP and PUK would joing with the Sadr-Abadi group or the Amiri-Maliki group.
The two parties met recently with officials from Amiri's Fateh Alliance.
The Council of Representatives is set to convene on Monday when the new parliamentarians are scheduled to elect a new speaker, which sets the stage for a new president to be chosen.
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