#Kurds agree on #Fuad_Masum for Iraq president: official
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Veteran Iraqi politician Fuad Masum was almost guaranteed to become Iraq’s next president after the main Kurdish blocs in parliament agreed on his candidacy Thursday. According to an unofficial power-sharing agreement, the position of federal president goes to a Kurd and Masum edged his rival Barham Saleh during a vote Kurdish MPs held behind closed doors in a Baghdad hotel, officials told AFP. “Fuad Masum is the only candidate of the Kurdish blocs for the position of president,” a senior Kurdish official who witnessed the vote said. read more