Service of Iraq and the Kurdistan Region - Mullah Bakhtiar, a former member of the Supreme Political and Interest Council of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, announced: "I have never accepted Bafel Talabani as the head of the Patriotic Union, and I will not accept it now." "I was left out purposefully, and if it were not for the pressure of the Patriotic Union, I would have been a candidate for the post of the president of Iraq."
