Rebwar Taha elected as Kirkuk governor in the absence of the KDP, the Turkmen Front and the Arab Alliance

Nine members of the Kirkuk Provincial Council elected Rebwar Taha as governor of Kirkuk and Mohammed Al-Hafez as head of the Kirkuk Council in a process that took place at al-Rashid Hotel without the presence of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Turkmen Front and the Arab Alliance in Kirkuk, according to a political source. It is noteworthy that the Minister of Justice, Khaled Shawani, attended the session to elect the governor of Kirkuk and the head of the council, as well as the members of the House of Representatives from the Badr Organization, the rapporteur of the House of Representatives, Gharib Askar, the representative of the Chaldean component, Ryan Al-Kaldani, and the representative of Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq, Mahmoud Al-Rubaie. Source: National Iraqi News Agency