In the presence of Plasschaert….the President of the Kurdistan Region receives the delegation of the Council of Commissioners

The President of the Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, received today, Thursday, in Erbil, a delegation of the Board of Commissioners of the Independent High Electoral Commission.

The President of the Kurdistan Region welcomed the Chairman of the Council of Commissioners, Judge Omar Ahmed Muhammad, the Vice-Chairman of the Council, Judge Fayyad Yassin Hussein, and the members of the Council of Commissioners, thanking them for their visit to Erbil to discuss the file of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament elections.

In the meeting, which was attended by the UN Special Representative, Jeanine Plasschaert, and the Director of the Electoral Assistance Office at the United Nations Mission, Amir Rain, they discussed the political facts after the Federal Court’s decision on the unconstitutionality of extending the work of the Kurdistan Regional Parliament and the Commission’s readiness to complete the electoral event in Kurdistan.

For their part, the Chairman and members of the Board of Commissioners expressed the commission’s readiness to hold parliamentary elections in the region, stressing the importance of the success of this electoral process.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency