Iraq parliament elects Fuad Masum president: speaker

July 24 2014 14:49:17

Iraq parliament elects Fuad Masum president: speaker

BAGHDAD - Agence France Presse

Iraq's parliament on July 24 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.

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