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| Talabani re-elected PUK secretary-general |
| 2010-06-12 |
| SULAIMANIYA / Aswat al-Iraq: The 3rd general congress of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan on Friday re-elected Jalal Talabani as its secretary-general, an informed PUK source said. “Jalal Talabani was unanimously re-elected as PUK secretary general today (June 11) during the party's 3rd general congress held in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniya,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Also, the congress elected Koussert Rassoul and Burham Saleh as deputies for the secretary general of the PUK. The congress also comes one year after the breakaway of key members and their joining along with Noshirwan Mustafa, the former PUK deputy secretary-general, the Change Movement, which won 25 out of a total 111 seats in the Iraqi Kurdistan region's parliament and eight seats in the Iraqi legislative elections, held on March 7, 2010. |
| Posted by:Steve White |