19 February 2020 - 00:04

Lahur Sheikh Jangi, Bafel Talabani elected as PUK co-leaders

<p style="text-align:left">Lahur Sheikh Jangi and Bafel Talabani were elected on Tuesday, February 18, as co-presidents of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) by the party&rsquo;s General Leadership Council, which has been meeting over the past several weeks to hammer out changes to the party&rsquo;s structure.

A member of that body, Pola Sirwan Talabani, told NRT that it also approved a raft of changes to the party’s by-laws during Tuesday’s meeting.

Additionally, Lahur Sheik Jangi was also tapped as the head of the delegation in charge of talks with Baghdad.

Fellow General Leadership Council member Rizgar Ali said after the meeting that the changes were approved unanimously and that the party had decided to start with a clean slate.

Moving forward, it would work to develop and improve its internal functions and its relations with other parties in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq.

The activities of the General Leadership Council were briefly paused by High Political Council Leader Kosrat Rasul, but resumed Tuesday after Rasul came back to Kurdistan Region from a trip.

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