Kurdistan Region PM – PUK agree to provincial council election date

Erbil (IraqiNews.com) The Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, announced an agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan to identify the 30th of next April 2014 as a date to conduct the elections of provincial councils in Kurdistan Regional to coincide with conducting parliamentary elections in Iraq.

The media office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan reported in a statement on Monday that ”The Undersecretary of Kurdistani Patriotic Union, Braham Salih, held a joint conference with Nechirvan Barzani, who is tasked by the Democratic Kurdistani Party to form the new Government, regarding the formation of the 8th Kurdistan Region Cabinet.”

At the beginning of the Conference, Salih stated that ”We discussed the file of forming the new cabinet and we have informed the Kurdistani Democratic Party that the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan wants to participate in Kurdistan Region Government to cooperate together in this stage in order to take opportunities offered for Kurds and achieve the success that citizens desire by forming a real unified government in Kurdistan Region.”