Fuad Masum elected new Iraqi president


24-07-2014 03:21 PM

Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday elected veteran Kurdish politician Fuad Masum as federal president, a move that paves the way for the much-delayed formation of a new government.

Parliament Speaker Salim al-Juburi announced that Masum, who was born in 1938 and became the first prime minister of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan more than two decades ago, had won the most votes.

* Al Arabiya




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