Politicians: No agreement among the winning components of Kirkuk to decide on the formation of the local government

The leader of the Turkmen Front, Qahtan Al-Wandawi, said that "all components have not yet reached any solution that would lead to holding the first session of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, explaining that the Turkmen are adhering to the proposal to rotate the position in search of an agreement towards it. He added that despite the ongoing meetings and the great convergence of visions between the Turkmen Front and other blocs, they have not resolved the ongoing controversy over the position of Governor, so we expect a longer period without forming a local government in Kirkuk. For her part, the member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Parwin Fateh, said that the position of governor is a Kurdish entitlement in light of the results of the elections in which we garnered the highest votes, and that the Kurds are not against power-sharing, but are ready to share the rest of the positions with the components on the condition that the position of governor is obtained. Rakan Saeed Al-Jubouri, the current Gove rnor and the one who received the highest votes among the Arab winners, explained that the close results among the winning blocs led to the intransigence and insistence of the Arabs and Kurds to obtain the position of the governor and no concession. He stressed that the Turkmen proposal is still in place to rotate the position among the components alternately for a year and eight months for each component, and this proposal is also pending without agreement, "therefore we rule out the formation of a local government during the coming period. Al-Jubouri, who headed the Arab Alliance list in Kirkuk, and obtained 3 seats, indicated that the Prime Minister's intervention was pivotal in resolving the issues that hinder the path of the Council, after he put before them a political agreement paper that could set a time frame for holding the first session. One of the proposals being discussed is to grant the position of governor to the Kurds, specifically to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and to grant the positi on of council president to the Arab component, specifically to the Arab Alliance, while priority is given to the Turkmen and Kurdistan Democratic Party candidates for the positions of deputy governor, deputy council Chairman and mayor of Kirkuk Center, and this is considered a Kurdish proposal. The Kurds won seven seats, divided as follows: 5 for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 2 for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and 1 for the quota (Babylon), bringing the total number of seats to 8. In contrast, the Arabs won 6 seats, divided as follows: 3 seats for the Arab Alliance, 2 seats for the Leadership Alliance, 1 seat for the Arab Alliance, while the United Iraqi Turkmen Front won 2 seats. Source: National Iraqi News Agency